Vista Mail does not see it's internet connection

[Guest]

I was lookig into an problem on a computer running Vista Home Basic and ran
into an issue I could not resolve. The computer used to have a wireless
connection to a ADSL modem and Mail worked fine. The wirelees connection got
problems so the user decided to switch to dialin via modem. Het could
retreive his mail. No problem. When I fixed the wireless connection mail
would not go to the wireless internet conenction but cameback with the dialin
popup. I tried to change this and removed all entries from the connections
tab and told mail to use the same connection as IE does. Saved settings ,
rebooted the system but the next time ( and all times after ) Mail still
wants to use the dialin. It simply does not use the Internet conenction but
the dialin popup comes back. I think I can go around the issue by deleting
the account and setting it up again, but that's hardly a solution if there is
a lot of mail already on the system.
Anyone had a similar problem ? Does some reg key stay in the registry ?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Try deleting that account, then create it again from scratch.

Gary VanderMolen

 

[mac]

I was lookig into an problem on a computer running Vista Home Basic and ran
into an issue I could not resolve. The computer used to have a wireless
connection to a ADSL modem and Mail worked fine. The wirelees connection
got
problems so the user decided to switch to dialin via modem. Het could
retreive his mail. No problem. When I fixed the wireless connection mail
would not go to the wireless internet conenction but cameback with the
dialin
popup. I tried to change this and removed all entries from the connections
tab and told mail to use the same connection as IE does. Saved settings ,
rebooted the system but the next time ( and all times after ) Mail still
wants to use the dialin. It simply does not use the Internet conenction
but
the dialin popup comes back. I think I can go around the issue by deleting
the account and setting it up again, but that's hardly a solution if there
is
a lot of mail already on the system.
Anyone had a similar problem ? Does some reg key stay in the registry ?

The solution is in the mail accounts properties to remove the checkmark from
'always connect using', then it will use 'any available'.
In IE options>connections set it to never dial a connection.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the suggestion Mac.
I think I tried that one but then again ....I tried so many options I forgot
which I actually tried and not tried.

will give it a shot and see if it works.

I'll be back

Greetz , Otto