out look express not giving me my messages

[Guest]

i have about 80 messages on outlook xpress and i cant get them , keeps saying pop3 host time out . Whats going on? Cant even email freeserve to see whats wrong!!
Thanks

 

[David Candy]

Sometimes a message gets stuck in Pop. Try deleting the message it hangs at. This shouldn't stop you sending mail.

connect to your mail server (mail.myisp.com) and port 110
and type (send yourself a mail first - or it's a boring example)

user <your email user name> eg user fred
pass <your email password> eg pass password
stat
list (with optional message ID eg list 1)
retr 1
quit

DELE 1 would delete the message with ID 1
RSET undeletes messages (messages marked with DELE are deleted when the quit
command is given Rset unmarks messahges for deletion)
NOOP Does nothing

And that is POP3 basic, and the full command set (there are optional ones).
So toss out OE and get going with telneting to your mail server.

 

[L Beck]

i have about 80 messages on outlook xpress and i cant get them , keeps

saying pop3 host time out . Whats going on? Cant even email freeserve to see
whats wrong!!

Thanks

If you have anti-virus software set to scan your email, disable the email
scanning. It can cause this type of error and it's not necessary.