Can't receive pop3 email

[mabynread]

I recently had to rebuild my computer following a motherboard/hard
drive failure.

I reinstalled XP and SP2 and then Office 2003.

I recovered the .pst file from the old drive and copied it into the
local settings/.../ directory.

I did the same for my wife's XP account on the same machine.

Her email works fine.

When I try to receive (I can send without any problem) on my pop3
accounts I get the message:

Task 'pop.freeserve.net - Receiving' reported error (0x800CCC92) :
'Your e-mail server rejected your login. Verify your user name and
password in your account properties. Under Tools, click E-mail
accounts. The server responded: -ERR unknown command'

I've checked the account properties (many times) and they're correct.

I've deleted and recreated the email accounts - no result.

I've deleted the profile and created a new one - I still get the same
message.

I've turned the virus checker on and off (and on again) - no change.

I've run out of things to check! I don't understand why it's happening
on my XP/email account but not my wife's.

I can access the email on a different machine, but this is really
bugging me (and wasting my time...). I've trawled google for several
hours but without any result.

Any ideas will be most welcome.

Thanks

 

[mabynread]

Don't you know it - you put a post on the net and then solve the
problem.

I had to delete my XP account (backing up my documents first) and then
create a new XP account and go through the boring process of setting
Outlook up again - this time it all works fine.

If anyone knows what was wrong the first time, please let me know.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Read the below link. Applies also to Outlook and OE
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309216

 

[mabynread]

Peter - many thanks. There were several other odd things happening at
the same time such as not being able to conduct a google search using
Firefox, but everything being possible in IE. All the oddities were
cured through by the account delete and re-creation.