POP3 problem

[S.Low]

Outlook 2000 running on an XP Pro client. I have set up
internet email accounts, but Outlook and OE give error
messages 'cannot find POP3 server named <mail.(ISP).net>.
Telnet will not connect, and netstat shows ports 110 and
25 are not listening. How do I activate these ports?

Thanks
S.Low

 

[Guest]

Recheck your server settings with your ISP. No < > or (ISP) although I assume you are using shorthand for the real settings. It should look something like this:
pop-server.isp.net or pop.mail.isp.com

 

[Guest]

The actual setting for the servers is mail.speakeasy.net
for both POP3 and SMTP servers. I am sure the problem is
in a client setting. I can telnet successfully from the
Exchange server and some other XP clients. I cannot
figure out why 110 and 25 are not on in 2 of the 5 XP
clients. I have been searching the KB but cannot find and
relevant answers. Any ideas?

-----Original Message-----
Recheck your server settings with your ISP. No < > or

(ISP) although I assume you are using shorthand for the
real settings. It should look something like this:

 

[S.Low]

Mary
The actual setting for the servers is mail.speakeasy.net
for both POP3 and SMTP servers. I am sure the problem is
in a client setting. I can telnet successfully from the
Exchange server and some other XP clients. I cannot
figure out why 110 and 25 are not on in 2 of the 5 XP
clients. I have been searching the KB but cannot find and
relevant answers. Any ideas?

Thanks
S.Low

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Try removing and reinstalling the TCP/IP stack?

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, S.Low asked:

| Mary
| The actual setting for the servers is mail.speakeasy.net
| for both POP3 and SMTP servers. I am sure the problem is
| in a client setting. I can telnet successfully from the
| Exchange server and some other XP clients. I cannot
| figure out why 110 and 25 are not on in 2 of the 5 XP
| clients. I have been searching the KB but cannot find and
| relevant answers. Any ideas?
|
| Thanks
| S.Low
|| -----Original Message-----
|| The actual setting for the servers is mail.speakeasy.net
|| for both POP3 and SMTP servers. I am sure the problem is
|| in a client setting. I can telnet successfully from the
|| Exchange server and some other XP clients. I cannot
|| figure out why 110 and 25 are not on in 2 of the 5 XP
|| clients. I have been searching the KB but cannot find and
|| relevant answers. Any ideas?
||| -----Original Message-----
||| Recheck your server settings with your ISP. No < > or
|| (ISP) although I assume you are using shorthand for the
|| real settings. It should look something like this:
||| pop-server.isp.net or pop.mail.isp.com
|||
||| "S.Low" wrote:
|||
|||| Outlook 2000 running on an XP Pro client. I have set up
|||| internet email accounts, but Outlook and OE give error
|||| messages 'cannot find POP3 server named <mail. (ISP).net>.
|||| Telnet will not connect, and netstat shows ports 110 and
|||| 25 are not listening. How do I activate these ports?
||||
|||| Thanks
|||| S.Low
||||
||| .
|||
|| .

 

[S.Low]

Tried re-installing TCP/IP, no luck. Uninstalled and re-
installed Outlook, no go. I am thinking it must have
something to do with XP. Specific error codes--Socket
Error 11004, Error Number 0x800CCC0D, not applicable in
this case but are the ones I keep getting. Any other ideas?

Thanks
S.Low

 

[Brian Tillman]

The actual setting for the servers is mail.speakeasy.net
for both POP3 and SMTP servers. I am sure the problem is
in a client setting. I can telnet successfully from the
Exchange server and some other XP clients. I cannot
figure out why 110 and 25 are not on in 2 of the 5 XP
clients.

Those ports need to be enabled on the _server_ machine (your ISP's machine),
not the client machine. Port 110 is the port where the POP server listens
for incoming connections from clients. Port 25 is where the SMTP server
listens for incoming connections from clients. It's a rare client PC indeed
that has either port available.