Outlook Express
<div class="IPBDescription">What's the friggin deal?</div> Ok, check this out, let me explain what's going on with my email crap.
I'll open outlook express to check my email, and everything is fine. But about every 5th or 6th time of doing so, my account information switches itself.
See, what I have circled in red should of course be up where the arrow is pointing to. But for some great unsolved mystery, it moves itself to my account box, precedes itself with a backslash, and replaces my pop server information with localhost. My account name stays there before it as well.
WTH? Anybody ever have this happen to them? Any ideas why this is happening or how to make it stop. It really isn't a big problem, just an annoyance.
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I'll open outlook express to check my email, and everything is fine. But about every 5th or 6th time of doing so, my account information switches itself.
See, what I have circled in red should of course be up where the arrow is pointing to. But for some great unsolved mystery, it moves itself to my account box, precedes itself with a backslash, and replaces my pop server information with localhost. My account name stays there before it as well.
WTH? Anybody ever have this happen to them? Any ideas why this is happening or how to make it stop. It really isn't a big problem, just an annoyance.
<img src='http://206.169.220.41/theBORG/2of12/mail.JPG' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
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maybe the one word, it is not liking it O_o
you see how you have smpt.teleclipse.net beside "SMTP"
you should have in the pop3 part something like pop.teleclipse.net or somehting, i think it has to be pop.blah.blah if you get me <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
They often change the server address to localhost because of the way they work.
However some isp's mail servers aren't compatible with this.
So you will need to disable the e-mail scanning of pc-cillin and any other mail filtering software then try it.
Edit: cHIs- the problem is that OE keeps changing it to localhost.
I know this... have you even read my question or what is happening?
[QUOTE=MonsieurEvil] I've never seen that before, nor is there any mention at the MS knowledgebase. Was your SMTP/POP info configured manually or did your ISP give you one of those auto-config apps to do it for you? And have you spoken to their support yet about it?[/QUOTE]
Heh, I know there is nothing at the MS base, that's why I came here. Maybe somebody has seen this before. As for configuration, I did that all myself. My ISP/town is so backwoods and redneck-y that they probably don't even know how to do it. Which is why I am reluctant to call support, because there have been times when they couldn't even answer simple networking configuration questions that my roommate asked them.
lol how did I mess up the quote?
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Aha! Thank you, that might very well be the cause, since that is exactly what I use.
Any way around this?
You need to put the names in quotation marks i.e.
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like so...<!--QuoteBegin--"Joe Bloggs"+--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ("Joe Bloggs")</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->This is how you use quotes<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Something like <a href='http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/release-notes.html' target='_blank'>Thunderbird</a>, which is pathetically easy to switch to... install it, and literally about 3 clicks later you can have everything set up.
It's got a junk mail filter too, if you have problems with that.
Well, it comes pre-installed with OS, and my virus program keeps everything at bay. It's simple and effective to use. Why bother switching?
When everybody and their mother were getting those stupid viruses in their mail last year, everyone of them was caught on my end. Warnings flashed and outlook express in conjunction with my virus scanner would not even allow me to view the mail.
And why the **** did you delete my sig, it's been up for god knows how long. You live to lock, delete, and belittle, don't you?
That is all.
To repeat my question of you, Borg:
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Well, if you turn it off or uninstall it, does the issue go away? And as a side note, does your account continue to work even with the localhost setting? If your filter is acting as a mini-POP server and routing your mail, the localhost setting would make sense. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
And no, the localhost setting will not let me retrieve mail at all. Actually, to be honest, I haven't even tried to delete my pop.teleclipse.net from the account line and leave localhost up top to see if it would retrieve the mail. Maybe I'll try that later.
Thanks monse and everybody else for the help.
If I can't have my icons, NO ONE CAN! - I used TweakUI from Powertools to rid them from my desktop, and it's not too much of an inconvenience, since the MS keyboard my sister got me to replace the crappy Fujitsu one has such amazing keys... like "My Computer", and "Mail", and, holy crap... "Web/Home"!
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