Re: MSOutlook 2003 Sending error 0x80042109 - SOLVED

So, it has nothing to do with my isp, firewalls, routers, or antivirus
programs.

What didn't work:
- deleting and re-building e-mail accounts

What worked for me:
- uninstalling/rebooting/installing Outlook (most probably wouldn't have
needed to do this if I tested the pst files first)
- scanpst.exe detected errors in a couple of data files I was using (I have
6)
- simply repairing errors with scanpst.exe wasn't sufficient (i.e., using
the old outlook.pst resulted in experiencing the same problem so I exported
the data from the old outlook.pst)
- created new profile and new outlook.pst; then imported old data into them;
didn't have to export data from my other pst files

I wish MSOutlook provides more detailed error messages than just "...cannot
connect to incoming/outgoing e-mail server..." It's pretty useless
information when one finds out in the end that the problem is either with MS
Outlook itself or one/several of the pst files. It's exceedingly
inconvenient as well when one considers that the error message is very
misleading resulting in the user wasting a lot of time testing a lot of
things (ISP, firewalls, antivirus, etc.) that need not have been tested in
the first place. It's very time consuming because "check your firewall" and
"check your antivirus" seem to be the standard answers that you get from
ISPs and from message boards. In all the problems I've had this year with
MS applications, my firewall and antivirus have never turned out to be the
problems. I can't say the same for my router, though, but this only applies
to the tweaking I will have to do to make my home compu accessible via RDC.


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