Re: Account properties - Server tab disappears!
- From: "Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:20:06 -0700
Try setting up another account (make up some settings), then see if you
can access the servers tab in that account. If that works, then delete
all the existing accounts and try setting up the Yahoo ones again.
If you still have problems, you may have a corrupted identity. Create a
new one and try that.
How to Create and Use Identities in Outlook Express
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=209169
As for your second problem, if you never complete downloading all the
existing e-mail messages from a POP3 mail server, the next time it will
start over from the beginning and send the messages that you may already
have. This is by design of the POP3 mail protocol. As a fail safe, the
server always assumes on a lost connection that the mail client crashed
and lost all messages from that download.
Some possible causes of problems downloading mail messages:
- You may have a very large message to download, or one that is causing
problems for your mail program. You can delete the messages via the web
interface.
- The POP3UIDL.DBX (OE5+) file may be corrupted. This is used to track
previously downloaded messages when you leave messages on a POP3 server
(Tools, Accounts, Mail, Properties, Advanced). However, the file gets
updated even if you aren't leaving messages on the server. Delete the
file with Outlook Express or Internet Mail closed. (On Win2000 you need
enable the display of Hidden or System files in the folder options and
XP you need to use the advanced options to find Hidden or System files.)
The next time all mail on the server will be downloaded. But after that
the file should function correctly again.
- The POP3 mail server is having problems.
- Anti-virus program scanning e-mail as it downloads or anti-spam
program. Increasing the Server Timeout at Tools, Accounts, Mail,
Properties, Advanced might help. Or you may need to disable the
anti-virus or anti-spam software from scanning e-mail.
--
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"neilthebike" <neilthebike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:A1586373-BB57-43B0-B859-A5EACA082A4B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Having just reinstalled OE6, with O/S XP, I m trying to set up the
programme
to receive mail from two accounts in Yahoo! mail.
To send messages, there are settings I need to change on the Tools -
Accounts - Properties - Servers tab, but when I select that tab, it
appears
for about 0.3 seconds, then the Properties box closes and reverts to
the main
Accounts window.
this gives me no option to change the settings I need to change.
What can I do?
Also, for some reason, each time I open OE6 it downloads the messages
from
Yahoo!, duplicating the ones previously received. Again, help please?
Thanks
.
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