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Baga
Somebody!
I am sick of it... half a year ago all of a sudden my Outlook stopped
working with POP3 accounts. I did some reading. Microsoft people of
cause blaimed anitviruses, firewalls, adviced to install SP2 for XP and
such. Nothing of that applied to me - i have SP2, no active antivirus
(do scan 1/week), no firewall (i think NAT router is enough of a
protection). When this same thing happened to SECOND machine (in a day
or two), i started suspecting windows updates. And sure enough - after
some binary searching i found that it was one of the updates!
Unfortunately i lost the number, it was something KB9811..., maybe
something else.
So, i uninstalled the update on both of the machines and marked it
"don't install" on microsoft update site. Silly me, i thought it's
over... Either that setting (not to install update) broke, or the
update was included into some later cumulative pack, but it is back
again - POP3 it completely broken!
Here is screenshot of Outlook errors reported:
http://www.problemov.net/images/OutlookErrors.PNG
I did try different clients and yes, everything is fine with servers
(all my POP3 account stopped working at the same time). I don't want to
spend a day sifting through windows updates to find which one did it to
me! Please, if somebody found that already, reply...
-- Baga
I am sick of it... half a year ago all of a sudden my Outlook stopped
working with POP3 accounts. I did some reading. Microsoft people of
cause blaimed anitviruses, firewalls, adviced to install SP2 for XP and
such. Nothing of that applied to me - i have SP2, no active antivirus
(do scan 1/week), no firewall (i think NAT router is enough of a
protection). When this same thing happened to SECOND machine (in a day
or two), i started suspecting windows updates. And sure enough - after
some binary searching i found that it was one of the updates!
Unfortunately i lost the number, it was something KB9811..., maybe
something else.
So, i uninstalled the update on both of the machines and marked it
"don't install" on microsoft update site. Silly me, i thought it's
over... Either that setting (not to install update) broke, or the
update was included into some later cumulative pack, but it is back
again - POP3 it completely broken!
Here is screenshot of Outlook errors reported:
http://www.problemov.net/images/OutlookErrors.PNG
I did try different clients and yes, everything is fine with servers
(all my POP3 account stopped working at the same time). I don't want to
spend a day sifting through windows updates to find which one did it to
me! Please, if somebody found that already, reply...
-- Baga