i have several email accounts that my outlook express checks and receives from the internet, including yahoo and hotmail. i can receive them just fine, but when i try to reply, they stay in my outbox and i get an error whenever it tries to send it. i don't understand.
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I have this same problem. To date, Yahoo's support can not help me. They say I need to receive mail before I can send mail on their account (for security reasons). Outlook 2000 and Outlook Express seem to send mail before receiving. Have not found a way to reverse that. Not sure what else to try. My current resolution is to receive the mail, then log on to yahoo to send. This works fine for that account, but other e-mail accounts I have which I can't access online are pretty much useless.
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When you send mail, you don't send it through Yahoo or Hotmail, you send it using your Internet Service Provider (ISP) servers. So, if you go to tools, accounts, and you click on one of your yahoo accounts, then go to properties, then click on the servers tab, you should have some info here. Verify your username and password first.
Look at the incoming mail and outgoing mail. Your incoming mail should be setup as the yahoo connection. But your OUTGOING mail should be your local ISP. If you are using MSN to connect to the internet, you should have something like mail.msn.com for the outgoing mail.
This might be the problem, it might not, let me know.
~Javrix
If you gave an infinate number of rednecks, an infinate number of shotguns to shoot at an infinate number of street signs, they would eventually write Romeo and Juliet in braille.
Look at the incoming mail and outgoing mail. Your incoming mail should be setup as the yahoo connection. But your OUTGOING mail should be your local ISP. If you are using MSN to connect to the internet, you should have something like mail.msn.com for the outgoing mail.
This might be the problem, it might not, let me know.
~Javrix
If you gave an infinate number of rednecks, an infinate number of shotguns to shoot at an infinate number of street signs, they would eventually write Romeo and Juliet in braille.
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yep, that was my problem. i had totally forgotten about this email, i fixed it a long time ago. anyway, i have netzero, so i had to change my outgoing to something like
netzero.mail.something...
i don't quite remember, i just copied it from my netzero account that i had to set up when i signed on with them. i don't have any problem with any of my accounts anymore.
netzero.mail.something...
i don't quite remember, i just copied it from my netzero account that i had to set up when i signed on with them. i don't have any problem with any of my accounts anymore.
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