WTF is w/ Outlook?

T

Terrapin

Seriously, once again I cannot 'connect' to Outlook. I've tried 'repairing'
Outlook Connector in the add/remove programs, and I've also tried this:
outlook.exe /resetnavpane in start/run. Still nothing. This happened a few
months ago when they did an update. Any suggestions? Thanks.

I have a suggestion for Microsoft. If it's absolutely necessary to do these
updates, knowing full well you're goign to F up everyone's email, how bout
sending a message to us informing us of what is about to happen, and how to
fix it? Or is that asking too much?
 
B

Bob I

This isn't Microsoft, it's a peer-to-peer public newsgroup. We are all
users similar to you.
 
D

Diane Poremsky [MVP]

V

VanguardLH

Terrapin said:
Seriously, once again I cannot 'connect' to Outlook.

Outlook is not a mail server. It is not listening on a port to accept
inbound connections. Outlook is an e-mail client. So just did you
intend to mean with "cannot connect", especially since "connect" was
single-quoted to convey some special meaning that only you know?
I've tried 'repairing'
Outlook Connector in the add/remove programs, and I've also tried this:
outlook.exe /resetnavpane in start/run. Still nothing.

Oh, we're supposed to guess by your use of the Outlook Connector add-in
that you are trying to have Outlook connect to a Live Hotmail account
while using HTTP/Deltasync versus POP?
This happened a few
months ago when they did an update. Any suggestions?

Got the latest version of the add-in installed? How about showing *us*
the error message when Outlook attempts to connect to your Hotmail
server? Have you even tried using the webmail interface to your Hotmail
account to make sure you are using the correct login credentials?
I have a suggestion for Microsoft. If it's absolutely necessary to do these
updates, knowing full well you're goign to F up everyone's email, how bout
sending a message to us informing us of what is about to happen, and how to
fix it? Or is that asking too much?

Yes, because Microsoft won't know how its customers have farked over or
their software environment and misconfigured their software.


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