upgraded from me. outlook express broken

[Kathy]

I upgratded from ME to XP. everything was fine. AT&T sold
out to comcast. used there wizard to update email
automatically.
Note: when Mediaone switched to AT&T. There was no
problem.
Now I getting email is hit and miss. Getting an time out
on the connection. It is not connection. to
mail.comcast.net. I deleted outlook express and
reinstalled. That did not fix the problem.
So I am guessing there is a setting that has not been
changed to comcast.net. That the wizard did not change.
Any ideas on what I need to change? Where to change it?

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

The settings for Comcast can be found here. Generally, there is nothing
else that needs to be set.

http://online.comcast.net/help/faq-detail.asp?intFaqID=333&intSubCategoryID=141

 

[Guest]

ok sounds like I am going to have to uninstall xp change
the email address and re install. I went through the step
by step set up from comcast when I reinstalled outlook
express. thx

 

[PA Bear]

That's overkill, Kathy. Make certain your Comcast account settings are
exactly as shown on this page:

http://online.comcast.net/help/faq-detail.asp?intFaqID=333&intSubCategoryID=141

Your current OE Identity may be damaged. Create a new Named Identity
(File>Indentities>Add new identity) and set up the Comcast account in it.
If all is well, import messages from the old Identity
(http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/faqs/how.htm#importOE5) before deleting it
(File>Identities>Manage Identities).

Also consider:

Cannot send or receive email after changing from AT&T Broadband to Comcast
High-Speed Internet service
http://snurl.com/209q

Error: "Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. . ." when
sending or receiving email in Outlook Express
http://snurl.com/28yo

Using a Linksys BEFSR41, BEFSR81 or BEFW11S4 Router?
http://www.linksys.com/support/support.asp?spid=87
--
OE6-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress

HTH...Please post back to this thread

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