two mail accounts one uses spf problem

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Mickey Flynn

I have two email accounts I check with Outlook. One is a DSL account at home
and the other a work email account. My work email changed mail servers to
one that uses the SPF extensions. This included changing our email account
settings accordingly. When I changed the work email settings on the home
machine the home account stopped working (Receiving error, pop server timing
out).

At work (connected to the work Ethernet connection not my DSL connection)
both accounts work fine. I tried deleting the work account on the home
machine in Outlook but the home email still does not work. I checked
everything for a week and nothing. I then remembered I have a second laptop
at home that I hadn't changed the work email settings on yet. When I opened
Outlook the home email account connected and worked fine but the work
account did not, as I expected. When I changed the work account settings (to
the new ones provided from work) it connected fine but the home account quit
working.

So this problem is duplicated on two machines at home. FYI, one machine is
Windows00 with Outlook02 and the other is XP with Outlook03. The home
account does not require SMTP authentication but the work account does. My
ISP (Alltel) has no idea what could be wrong and nither does our work
account. Any ideas?
 
Have you tried deleting & readding the home account at home? Also, have you
tried creating a fresh profile here: Control Panel > Mail applet?
 
Yes, I've tried everything. Like I say, once the second laptop duplicated
this problem that pretty told me.
Both accounts have worked fine until we switched email servers at work.

Vince Averello said:
Have you tried deleting & readding the home account at home? Also, have you
tried creating a fresh profile here: Control Panel > Mail applet?

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I have two email accounts I check with Outlook. One is a DSL account at home
and the other a work email account. My work email changed mail servers to
one that uses the SPF extensions. This included changing our email account
settings accordingly. When I changed the work email settings on the home
machine the home account stopped working (Receiving error, pop server timing
out).

At work (connected to the work Ethernet connection not my DSL connection)
both accounts work fine. I tried deleting the work account on the home
machine in Outlook but the home email still does not work. I checked
everything for a week and nothing. I then remembered I have a second laptop
at home that I hadn't changed the work email settings on yet. When I opened
Outlook the home email account connected and worked fine but the work
account did not, as I expected. When I changed the work account settings (to
the new ones provided from work) it connected fine but the home account quit
working.

So this problem is duplicated on two machines at home. FYI, one machine is
Windows00 with Outlook02 and the other is XP with Outlook03. The home
account does not require SMTP authentication but the work account does. My
ISP (Alltel) has no idea what could be wrong and nither does our work
account. Any ideas?
 
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