SOLVED THE DAMN 'operation timed out waiting for a response from the receiving (POP) server 0x800421

[Damian]

I posted about this yesterday but it looks af if the post 'd got lost
or something.
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Subject: Those of you with a 0x8004210A error message on Outlook
2003's Internet Mail, read this. I've made it work here

Hi everyone

I'd been fighting this one for some time and finally got things
working today. I noticed there were lots of questions about it on
these newsgroups and not many answers (no offense, just what I found).

Anyway, I got tipped off by an article on the Microsoft site, but one
I found by accident.

Here's what I did: I searched the entire system drive for the
Inetcomm.dll file, and found two. One was iirc in Windows' SYSTEM32
folder, the other in some ServicePackSomething folder.

The files were different versions (the SYSTEM32 one being newer, as
expected).

What I did was to unregister the one in the SYSTEM32 folder and
register the older one. I then restarted the machine.

That seems to have solved the problem for me, so I thought of letting
you people know. OS is Win 2000 Professional, lest I forget.

Hope this is of help, regards

Damián
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Thought I'd repost, regards

Damián

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

I'm no Windows expert, so I'm not giving you any guarantees that this will
work, and not trash your system somehow But have you tried
right-clicking the .dll filename in Windows Explorer? In Windows XP Pro,
there is an "Unregister" command on the right-click menu.

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MVP - Outlook

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[Damian]

I searched and only had one Inetcomm.dll file in my Windows folder.

But I am interested in trying to unregister it, whatever that means.

Can someone share how to "unregister" a dll file?

Ooops, .. sorry about the delay, I hadn't been watching the thread.

To unregister this DLL (not all DLLs are registered and unregistered
the same way, mind you), you'll need to open a command line window and
use the REGSVR32 utility in Windows' SYSTEM (or SYSTEM32) folder.

The syntax would be REGSVR32 [/u] <dll file name, with full path>

Use the /u switch to unregister DLLs, leave it out to register them.

Best of luck,

Damián