LPJ said:
The message that I have been getting lately is " Task 'HTTP-Sending' reported
error (0x800CCC0D): ' unable to find the email server. Please verify the
server information in your account.'
The server name you specified in the account that you defined in Outlook
does not exist or you specified the wrong name and no mail server is
operating on that host. You need to use the settings in the e-mail
account defined in Outlook that match what the /unidentified/ e-mail
provider says to use.
You identified to little to go on. Outlook version? Windows version?
Type of e-mail account (SMTP or Exchange). I can only guess that
"HTTP-Sending" means you are trying to use Outlook to connect to a
Hotmail account. You don't say if you are using SMTP or HTTP/Deltasync
to send e-mails through your Hotmail account.
Cutoff for DAV access to Hotmail ended on September 1, 2009. Microsoft
switched to Deltasync as their HTTP communications protocol to their
webmail service. E-mail clients that support only DAV for HTTP access
will no longer be able to use it to access Hotmail. Your choices after
the cutoff are:
- Use POP to access your Hotmail account.
- Use a Deltasync-enable client to see all the folders in your webmail
account.
- Use the webmail interface that has always been there even before
Microsoft bought Hotmail.
Also see
http://www.howto-outlook.com/news/hotmailaccessforbidden.htm
POP has no concept of folders. It only understands a mailbox where ALL
your e-mails reside. Because POP doesn't use folders, there are no
commands within the Post Office Protocol to navigate or select folders.
It only has access to your mailbox. The mailbox that POP can access is
the Inbox folder you see when using the webmail client to your account.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_office_protocol
http://communication.howstuffworks.com/email.htm
http://email.about.com/cs/standards/a/pop_basics.htm
http://email.about.com/cs/standards/a/how_pop_works.htm
Hotmail has never had and still doesn't have IMAP access. IMAP lets you
access other folders in your e-mail account (or, more accurately, those
folders to which you have subscribed). Microsoft has hinted that they
may make IMAP access possible in the future but no Hotmail user is going
to pend using their account until if and whenever IMAP access shows up.
The only way to have local access to the non-Inbox folders in your
Hotmail account is to use Deltasync (DAV support dies on Sept 1). This
protocol makes available all your folders that you defined using either
the Deltasync-enabled e-mail client (which then replicates that local
folder on the server) or syncs to those folders you created using the
webmail client. If you want IMAP-like access to your Hotmail account,
you'll need to use either the webmail client or a local e-mail client
that supports Deltasync, which are:
- Windows Live Mail (replaces Outlook Express and Vista's Windows Mail).
- Outlook 2003/2007 *plus* the Outlook Connector add-on. The add-on
adds Deltasync support since no version of Outlook natively supports
Deltasync. The add-on doesn't work with prior versions of Outlook.
- Use a screen-scraper proxy or e-mail client that tries to navigate the
web pages for the webmail client to Hotmail.
