trouble with port 110

[Mark P. Gehret]

I was hoping that someone could help me. I have an e-
mail account that is not working in outlook express. I
have windows xp professional with the service pack 1
loaded. The account name is (e-mail address removed). I get
an error message of "The connection to the server has
failed. Account: 'mail.hostsave.com',
Server: 'mail.hostsave.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110,
Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number:
0x800CCC0E" I know that the e-mail account works because
I can get the e-mails on another pc and I have family
that have the same type of account and theres all works.
I tried to troubleshoot the problem with all of the
things that microsoft had said to try on there web page
but none of it worked ex. I tried telnet and I could not
connect. Microsoft said to uninstall the tcp/ip's and
then let windows reload them. I can not delete them in
windows xp. Does anyone know what else I can try to fix
this? I need to know how to get that port umblocked, but
I can not figure out what is blocking it and not allowing
me to use port 110. can anyone help?

Thanks
Mark

 

[Rob Schneider]

I was hoping that someone could help me. I have an e-
mail account that is not working in outlook express. I
have windows xp professional with the service pack 1
loaded. The account name is (e-mail address removed). I get
an error message of "The connection to the server has
failed. Account: 'mail.hostsave.com',
Server: 'mail.hostsave.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110,
Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number:
0x800CCC0E" I know that the e-mail account works because
I can get the e-mails on another pc and I have family
that have the same type of account and theres all works.
I tried to troubleshoot the problem with all of the
things that microsoft had said to try on there web page
but none of it worked ex. I tried telnet and I could not
connect. Microsoft said to uninstall the tcp/ip's and
then let windows reload them. I can not delete them in
windows xp. Does anyone know what else I can try to fix
this? I need to know how to get that port umblocked, but
I can not figure out what is blocking it and not allowing
me to use port 110. can anyone help?

Thanks
Mark

By chance is a firewall blocking the port?

 

[Mark]

-----Original Message-----


By chance is a firewall blocking the port?

.
No firwalls are on at this time. The e-mail did work

for a while and then stopped again. The firwall that was
on when it worked but I took them off just incase.

 

[Doug V.]

I was hoping that someone could help me. I have an e-
mail account that is not working in outlook express. I
have windows xp professional with the service pack 1
loaded. The account name is (e-mail address removed). I get
an error message of "The connection to the server has
failed. Account: 'mail.hostsave.com',
Server: 'mail.hostsave.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110,
Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number:
0x800CCC0E" I know that the e-mail account works because
I can get the e-mails on another pc and I have family
that have the same type of account and theres all works.
I tried to troubleshoot the problem with all of the
things that microsoft had said to try on there web page
but none of it worked ex. I tried telnet and I could not
connect. Microsoft said to uninstall the tcp/ip's and
then let windows reload them. I can not delete them in
windows xp. Does anyone know what else I can try to fix
this? I need to know how to get that port umblocked, but
I can not figure out what is blocking it and not allowing
me to use port 110. can anyone help?

Thanks
Mark

Mark,

It's not just you or your ISP. It's happening with
dialup customers using OE at my ISP
(CenturyTel.net) also.