Re: Outlook E-Mail Settings

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From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:39:32 -0700

Andre Da Costa wrote:

> Make sure that you have set it up as a Pop 3 account.
>
> For incoming and outgoing you would have:
>
> mail.isp.com
> mail.isp.com
>

These settings vary from ISP to ISP, so the above isn't necessarily
true.

The mail settings for Comcast (cable) are:

Outgoing mail (SMTP): smtp.comcast.net
Incoming mail (POP3): mail.comcast.net

> "Sunflower" <allaboutume@comcast.net(donotspam)> wrote in message
> news:A0705F59-B38F-4142-861F-7099EE9404EF@microsoft.com...
>>I have Microsoft Outlook and my provider is Comcast. When I try to
>>send
>> messages from Outlook it always comes back as undeliverable.
>> Obviously I can
>> send from Comcast just fine. What settings do I need to have mail
>> sent from
>> Outlook (not Outlook Express)? I have XP.

Here is a link to the email FAQ's for Comcast:

http://faq.comcast.net/faq/query.jsp?name=Email

Scroll down to see how to set up Outlook to work with Comcast.

Malke 

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