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Old October 26th 04, 01:27 PM
grellor
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Default Outlook 2003/Hotmail problems after installing WinXP SP2


I had exactly the same problem.I completely uninstalled office 2003 and
everything it leaves behind.I then removed my hotmail account from
OUTLOOK EXPRESS.I reinstalled office 2003 and in outlook imported pop3
settings from outlook express.Then I chose which pop3 account was to be
my default.Once I was sure outlook was now sending emails from the
correct pop3 account I then went back to outlook express and added back
in my hotmail account.I have not let hotmail anywere near outlook since
I did this.If I need hotmail I use outlook express.
I have heard that from next spring hotmail will not be available using
outlook or outlook express.Koobla wrote:
*Hello,

I installed SP2 and at the time only encountered one small problem
(or so I
thought)with my display adapter, which was fixed by downloading newer
drivers.
There was another, what I thought was an annoyance rather than a
problem,
that I encountered as well. I have a .net passport and I use
Windows
Messenger. Before installing SP2, I could right-click on the
messenger icon
(little green man, bottom right) and choose, 'go to inbox', this
would then
open an instance of IE and take me straight to my Hotmail
Mailbox....great
just how I liked it!.

Post SP2 however, when I right click on the icon and choose, 'go to
inbox',
Outlook opens and not IE. Like I said at the time, just an annoyance
I
thought, I'll simply add my Hotmail account to my mail profile, but
the
problem is bigger than that.

So now in my mail profile, I have my pop3 account (called Work, which
is set
as my default mail account), which as the name suggests is my Work
email, and
I also have my Hotmail account setup.

I recently noticed that when I reply to, or forward an email then the
email
is sent from my hotmail account and not my default pop3 account. I
have even
specifically chosen to send from my work email, by choosing my work
account
on the drop down menu (called Accounts) on the email I am sending.

Obviously this does not look at all good when I am sending emails to
customers.

So I thought the best thing to do would be too simply remove Hotmail
from my
mail profile, which I did. Now when I try to send an email, the
email
bounces back to me straight away, staing something like, "the mail
could not
be sent as no valid email transport could be found" (I am not on my
pc at the
moment and can't remember the exact message)

I could fix this by adding my hotmail account to my mail profile
again, but
this just takes me back to my initial problem.

I have tried a number of things, like delete my mail profile and then
setup
a new one, checked the default email program (this is set to my pop3
account), checked the Outlook send and receive group (all set
correctly, I
even unticked the send ability of the Hotmail account, still no
good)

I reckon It could be fixed if I renamed my current user profile held
in
Documents and Settings, but then I have to go through setting up my
account
to the weay I like it again, which would take ages.

Apologies for the long message, but I needed to get everything in
there.

Thanks

Chris *




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