Problem with storing passwords

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I'm no stranger to Outlook, believe me, yet as many times as I click "Remember password" when the dialogue for my e-mail account's password comes up, Outlook completely ignores it, and I have yet to have a password successfully stored. I went into the options, told it to save the password of my account, yet doesn't believe me, and I have to manually the password for each of my e-mail accounts. When the password dialogue comes up again, the box is unchecked and the password field is empty. You have no idea how many times I've entered the password, and checked the box, in hopes that, maybe, for some reason, Outlook got an update I wasn't aware of that fixed this problem.

This gets pretty annoying, when my school's IMAP account requires the password twice. One to check for new headers, and one for new messages. I figured it was just my school's account, that they were protected against that, but Outlook does the same thing for my Comcast POP3 account. Also, annoying considering that Outlook checks for new messages (thereby requests my password) every couple of minutes, or whenever I open the program.

Any suggestions, or people having this problem elsewhere? Running Office 2000 on Windows XP. All my privacy settings are low, and I'm not behind a firewall. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
The Wisedog
http://www.wisedogsdoghouse.hp.ms
 
Wisedog,

I have seen this about a million times. I do 2 things and
it fixes the problem everytime. Do the following and in
this order.

1. Delete all your accounts in Outlook, remember the POP
and SMTP settings and passwords of course.
2. Go to http://office.microsoft.com
3. On the left side of the page select Downloads
4. In the middle of the page select "Check for Updates"
5. Note any security patches or service packs and apply
them. Note that during the updates it might request your
original Office CD. So make sure you have this handy
before you start.
6. Once all updates have been applied, -REBOOT.
7. Go back into Outlook and recreate the first account
and make sure during the inital setup you select the
check box "remember password". Then try it out. If it
works, add the other accounts.

Let me know how it goes, good luck
Clayton,
MCSE,CCNA,CNE


-----Original Message-----
I'm no stranger to Outlook, believe me, yet as many
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times as I click "Remember password" when the dialogue
for my e-mail account's password comes up, Outlook
completely ignores it, and I have yet to have a password
successfully stored. I went into the options, told it to
save the password of my account, yet doesn't believe me,
and I have to manually the password for each of my e-mail
accounts. When the password dialogue comes up again, the
box is unchecked and the password field is empty. You
have no idea how many times I've entered the password,
and checked the box, in hopes that, maybe, for some
reason, Outlook got an update I wasn't aware of that
fixed this problem.
This gets pretty annoying, when my school's IMAP account
Click to expand...
requires the password twice. One to check for new
headers, and one for new messages. I figured it was just
my school's account, that they were protected against
that, but Outlook does the same thing for my Comcast POP3
account. Also, annoying considering that Outlook checks
for new messages (thereby requests my password) every
couple of minutes, or whenever I open the program.
Any suggestions, or people having this problem
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elsewhere? Running Office 2000 on Windows XP. All my
privacy settings are low, and I'm not behind a firewall.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
I just posted this same problem before seeing it here. I
tried what was suggested here and it did not work. There
were no updates for me though. I do tend to keep my
software up to date so I'm not sure if that was the
glitch in this working or not.

Here's hoping there's another suggestion out there.
 
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