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From: "Pete Holsberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:49
Pete Holsberg wrote:
A neighbor's Dell computer with XP Home exhibits very strange behavior
with both Outlook Express and the latest Thunderbird. She cannot connect
to the POP3 server at Verizon. "Socket error 10060"
I found that this error occurs when you are using an SMTP server that
your ISP blocks. However, she's using outgoing.verizon.net.
I ran VZ's "PC Check" program and it reported that OE was using port 995
instead of 110.
I checked that in OE and in TB and found that both were configured for
110, no SSL or other secure protocols.
She's using Windows firewall and I reset it to the default settings.
I set up her account on my computer and it works fine.
What could be causing the problem?
All of the responses I've received have focused on Outlook Express.
I need to point out that the same behavior occurs with Thunderbird, so
that seems to me to suggest that the problem is not in either one of the
email clients.
Does anything come to mind about this?
Is it only with that e-mail account? Do other e-mail accounts work? What is
the error you receive in Thunderbird? I think in an earlier post you
mentioned that it wasn't the same error as in OE but you failed to describe
what the error was.
Again, the socket error 10060 is a connection timeout error. It could
indicate that something is blocking the ports on that machine or perhaps at
a router?
Regards,
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Rick Cogan from Melbourne, FL
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