Setting up email accounts

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I previously had my email account set up in OE. I tried to set up in Outlook
but it just won't work. Originally I imported it from OE and then tried to
set it up manually but same result. All the POP3, server and security
settings are identical. I have set Outlook as the default mail program.

I am not sure about the port settings. This article
http://products.secureserver.net/email/email_outlook.htm suggests they should
be 110 incoming and 80 outgoing whereas in OE they were 25 and 80
respectively.

Any assistance welcome. Thank you
 
Outlook version? Did you look at your ISP's instructions, usually posted on their web page?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Graham asked:

| I previously had my email account set up in OE. I tried to set up in
| Outlook but it just won't work. Originally I imported it from OE and
| then tried to set it up manually but same result. All the POP3,
| server and security settings are identical. I have set Outlook as the
| default mail program.
|
| I am not sure about the port settings. This article
| http://products.secureserver.net/email/email_outlook.htm suggests
| they should be 110 incoming and 80 outgoing whereas in OE they were
| 25 and 80 respectively.
|
| Any assistance welcome. Thank you
 
Mail account settings, usually posted in the email or FAQ section.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Graham asked:

| Outlook 2000. What would I be looking for on the ISP website?
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Outlook version? Did you look at your ISP's instructions, usually
|| posted on their web page?
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Graham asked:
||
||| I previously had my email account set up in OE. I tried to set up in
||| Outlook but it just won't work. Originally I imported it from OE and
||| then tried to set it up manually but same result. All the POP3,
||| server and security settings are identical. I have set Outlook as
||| the default mail program.
|||
||| I am not sure about the port settings. This article
||| http://products.secureserver.net/email/email_outlook.htm suggests
||| they should be 110 incoming and 80 outgoing whereas in OE they were
||| 25 and 80 respectively.
|||
||| Any assistance welcome. Thank you
 
Would the ISP be the company that provides my internet connection or the one
which hosts the email servers? And would they be different for Outlook and OE?
 
Graham said:
I am not sure about the port settings. This article
http://products.secureserver.net/email/email_outlook.htm suggests
they should be 110 incoming and 80 outgoing whereas in OE they were
25 and 80 respectively.
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The incoming POP port will be either 110, 995, or some other port your ISP
will tell you to use, but never 25. SMTP (outgoing) ports are either 25,
465, or some other port your ISP will tell you to use, but, except for the
example you cite, rarely 80. Port 80 is what most web servers user form
incoming connections. It would be a rare ISP that allows SMTP connections
to come in on port 80.
 
It's in my sig.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Graham asked:

| Would the ISP be the company that provides my internet connection or
| the one which hosts the email servers? And would they be different
| for Outlook and OE?
|
| On another matter do you know where this 'after furious head
| scratching...' nonsense comes form?
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Mail account settings, usually posted in the email or FAQ section.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Graham asked:
||
||| Outlook 2000. What would I be looking for on the ISP website?
|||
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| Outlook version? Did you look at your ISP's instructions, usually
|||| posted on their web page?
||||
|||| --ÂÂ
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Graham asked:
||||
||||| I previously had my email account set up in OE. I tried to set up
||||| in Outlook but it just won't work. Originally I imported it from
||||| OE and then tried to set it up manually but same result. All the
||||| POP3, server and security settings are identical. I have set
||||| Outlook as the default mail program.
|||||
||||| I am not sure about the port settings. This article
||||| http://products.secureserver.net/email/email_outlook.htm suggests
||||| they should be 110 incoming and 80 outgoing whereas in OE they
||||| were 25 and 80 respectively.
|||||
||||| Any assistance welcome. Thank you
 
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