Can't logon to incoming POP3: mailbox on server in use.

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I have set up a new email account successfully in Outlook but I can't logon
to incoming POP3 because "mailbox on the server is in use". Does anyone know
what that message means? Thank you.
 
What it means is that the mail server is in use. Contact your ISP for
assistance.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Frosty asked:

| I have set up a new email account successfully in Outlook but I can't
| logon to incoming POP3 because "mailbox on the server is in use".
| Does anyone know what that message means? Thank you.
 
Frosty said:
I have set up a new email account successfully in Outlook but I can't logon
to incoming POP3 because "mailbox on the server is in use". Does anyone know
what that message means? Thank you.
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Thanks Milly,
As it turns out, my ISP, Comcast does not support Outlook, only Outlook
Express. I later discovered that the error message was misleading. I was
using the wrong password and when I corrected it I was able to logon.
Frosty
 
Frosty,
Comcast is telling you stories again. I have comcast and I am using Outlook
2003 without any problems whatsoever. You can call them three times and get
three answers to the same question. If you want additional help, please let
me know. The key is the two server names for incoming and outgoing:
"pop.comcast.net" and "smtp.comcast.net".
 
I'm on Comcast also and I use mail.comcast.net and mail.comcast.net with no
problems. Is there a diffrence between mail.comcast.net and pop.comcast.net?
Jeff
 
It depends on how your local Comcast has their servers set up. Some use
pop.comcast... others use mail.comcast...

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Jeff asked:

| I'm on Comcast also and I use mail.comcast.net and mail.comcast.net
| with no problems. Is there a diffrence between mail.comcast.net and
| pop.comcast.net? Jeff
| || Frosty,
|| Comcast is telling you stories again. I have comcast and I am using
|| Outlook
|| 2003 without any problems whatsoever. You can call them three times
|| and get
|| three answers to the same question. If you want additional help,
|| please let
|| me know. The key is the two server names for incoming and outgoing:
|| "pop.comcast.net" and "smtp.comcast.net".
||
|| "Frosty" wrote:
||
|||
|||
||| "Frosty" wrote:
|||
|||| I have set up a new email account successfully in Outlook but I
|||| can't logon
|||| to incoming POP3 because "mailbox on the server is in use". Does
|||| anyone know
|||| what that message means? Thank you.
|||
||| Thanks Milly,
||| As it turns out, my ISP, Comcast does not support Outlook, only
||| Outlook Express. I later discovered that the error message was
||| misleading. I was using the wrong password and when I corrected it
||| I was able to logon. Frosty
 
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