Question:
Why can't I use Outlook Express 6 for e-mailing?
anonymous
2007-06-12 05:10:31 UTC
This is the error message I always receive-The host 'SMTP' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the server name correctly. Account: 'POP3', Server: 'SMTP', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11001, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D
Five answers:
David D
2007-06-12 05:13:36 UTC
You have to tell it what SMTP server to send email though, and you've told it to use one called 'SMTP', which doesn't exist on your network (and since the address doesn't end in a top level domain like .com or .uk, it can't exist on the Internet).



Your ISP will generally provide an SMTP server, consult their website or technical support to find out the address.
ProfWiggy
2007-06-12 05:38:05 UTC
First of all, Outlook Express is a mail client. That means that it has to talk to a mail server to get and send a copy of your mail. This is like you dropping postal mail in a post office box or picking it up at the post office. And like snail mail, you have to know your post office. There are a few ways to connect to a mail server (Post Office). IMAP is one way, but not used much any more (other than possible still HOTMAIL, and a few others). Today's standard is POP3 for receiving mail and SMTP for sending mail. They are protocols (think of it as secret handshakes, or standard instructions) that most mail clients support and understand.



In any case, you need to configure the client to connect to the correct servers. It appears that you have either kept the defaults or put in just the names of the mail protocols, not the names of the servers. Typically the POP3 server is named pop.servername.com and the SMTP server is name smtp.servername.com (although that is just a common naming theme and can be quite different.) For example: comcast mail servers are pop.comcast.net and smtp.comcast.net (POP3 and SMTP respectively)



Check with the mail service to see what the names of the servers are first, then in Outlook Express go to Tools, and then Accounts, and edit the properties for the account you want to use.



You can have as many email accounts as you want, and Outlook Express will sync the mail with the servers if you have it checked to do it. Just remember that if you remove the mail from the server, you will not be able to see it in your web browser mail once you have synced it with Outlook Express. If you travel a lot or use many PCs to check your mail, you might want to uncheck this option, and save the mail on the mail server, however, that means you will have to periodically do housecleaning to keep the volume low and not run out of storage space.
Anthony M
2007-06-12 05:16:15 UTC
Ok first who is your main source for internet connection when you find that out goto there web site and click on email acoounts and find out the pop server the smtp server and what ever else it is asking you you have to set outlook up with that proxy in order to use them hope this helps you Tony
Joe M
2007-06-12 05:14:39 UTC
It sounds like you need to set it up correctly.



You will need an e-mail account that will allow you to use outlook (im pretty sure yahoo accounts don't).



Check with your ISP, and you probably have the ability to set up a few (your main one is usually your login name/password). When you talk to them, get their pop3 and smtp server names, and enter those into outlook.
bambamitsdead
2007-06-12 05:14:36 UTC
You've not configured it - you've not specified where it's to get email from and where it's to send email to (ie which computers upstream are offering you the email service, not the recipients of the email).



Or if you've configured it, you've configured it wrong. Are you *really* using an account of POP3 to sign on to a server called SMTP? Those normally would be protocol names.


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