Check with your ISP for the server name - it appears that pop.server is not
a properly configured name for a mail server. Road Runner has FAQs on their
site that will tell you how to configure their servers for use.
--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.
After furious head scratching, George Walker asked:
| "evet950" wrote:
|
|| I am having a similar problem using Outlook 2003. I have imported
|| from OE,
|| uninstalled and reinstalled Outlook, but nothing seems to work.
|| Error
|| message I receive after testing the account "Task 'Earthlink -
|| Sending'
|| reported error (0x8004010F) : 'The operation failed. An object
|| could not be
|| found.' "
||
|| Also, most likely related to same problem, when I click on the
|| Send/Receive
|| button I receive the error "The operation failed. An object could
|| not be
|| found."
||
|| Please help.... Need to write a macro that utilizes Outlook 2003.
|| Thanks!
||
|| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
||
||| What version of Outlook? If Outlook 2002 or 2003, what errors do
||| you get
||| when you test account settings? The error messages are the key to
||| solving
||| this problem, which is most likely an authentication problem.
|||
||| --ÂÂ
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
||| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
||| personal
||| account will be deleted without reading.
|||
||| After furious head scratching, George Walker asked:
|||
|||| "Mary" wrote:
||||
||||| You must have a slight typo in the server settings. Try Importing
||||| the
||||| settings from OE and see if they work. You can also open OE and
||||| copy
||||| and paste the settings to OL.
|||||
||||| "George Walker" wrote:
|||||
|||||| The pop3 and smtp server addees specified by my ISP do not work
|||||| in
|||||| Outlook; tell me they can't be found. They work in Outlook
|||||| Express! -- Outlook begins searching for incoming and outgoing,
|||||| then come
|||||| the error messages: can't be found. (Have no problems with email
|||||| with Eudora6 or even the very occasional use of Netscape.)
|||||| Is there a workaround? Thanks.
|||||| George Walker
||||
|||| Thanks for responding. I've tried copying, checking for typos,
|||| importing,
|||| etc. Nothing seems to work. Just can't connect to my ISP. I've even
|||| edited my registry. I may just have to uninstall and reinstall
|||| Outlook. Sheesh!
|||
||| I'm using Outlook2k as a unit of Office2k, under XP. I connect to
||| my ISP with cable broadband. When I try to send or receive I get
||| the message "The server could not be found. (Account 'gmwalkr',
||| POP3 Server: 'pop-server.elp.rr.com,' Error number 0x800ccc0d). I
||| have no connection problems with Eudora or with Outlook Express.
| Uninstalled and installed Outlook hoping to get a clean installation,
| but it
| picked up the same settings; do not know how to get the settings
| cleared. --
| I am not afraid to edit the registry if that would help to solve the
| problem.
| Thanks for the response, Millie.Ch
