URGENT: OL2003: can receive e-mail ONLY ONCE (?!?)

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Philotech

I got an urgent problem with Outlook 2003: After installation of OL2003 and
setting up the Outlook profile including e-mail accounts (POP3) I can
receive e-mails JUST ONCE (?!?). When pressing Send/Receive for a second
time, I get the error message:

"Error (0x800408FC): Server cannot be found in network (network probably not
available)"

(translated from German and shortened)

Restarting Outlook doesn't help. Neither does deleting the .pst file and
using a new one nor anything else, except setting up a whole new profile,
for example by deleting the appropriate whole registry key
HKeyCurrentUser\Software\Microsoft\WinNT\CuurentVersion\WindowsMessages\Subs
ystem\Profiles\Outlook

Most other things still work:
- SENDING e-mail in OL2003
- testing account settings in the e-mail account settings (except that the
test e-mail cannot be received later)
- using the same account settings in Outlook Express (sending AND receiving)
- using HTML web access for the same account

What doesn't work either:
- restarting OL2003
- trying different e-mail accounts (I got plenty ;-) )
- deleting outlook.pst and having OL2003 create a new one (because e-mail
accounts stay the same)
- trying different dial-up accounts
- messing around with WinXP firewall settings
- trying the same with a different user account (WinXP; both users have
admin privileges)

I'm using WinXP Prof over dial-up networking. Tried different accoun
Outlook Express on the other hand works perfectly with the same accounts.

HKCU-Software-MS-WinNT-CurrentVersion-WinMessaging-SubSys-Profiles-Outlook.r
eg
 
Correction: it only stops working after I close OL2003 and restart it again.
May be something with the profiles in the registry, since they are written
to the registry only on closing OL2003, and that's when all the mess begins
:((

Philotech
 
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