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07-09-2009
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| | setting up my email accounts on Windows Mail through Vista I have 2 email addresses and my ISP is att.yahoo.com PoP3 and SMTP one works and one doesn't - says doesn't recognize host name. Under Server - settings - advanced do I use same settings as incoming or log on using different email address and password? thank you |
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07-10-2009
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| | Re: setting up my email accounts on Windows Mail through Vista Right-click on your error message, copy, then paste it into a reply here. We can't do much troubleshooting without the complete error message. -- Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail) "marypat" <marypat@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:05F649DF-30A9-46AE-9919-1583FC24FCDC@xxxxxx Quote: >I have 2 email addresses and my ISP is att.yahoo.com PoP3 and SMTP one works > and one doesn't - says doesn't recognize host name. Under Server - settings > - advanced do I use same settings as incoming or log on using different email > address and password? thank you |
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07-10-2009
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| | Re: setting up my email accounts on Windows Mail through Vista Each email account has its own username & password. So if both accounts are with the same email provider, the server names will be the same, but the username & password will be different (you could use the same password, tho). -- Windows 7 RC http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview http://download.live.com/wlmail "marypat" <marypat@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:05F649DF-30A9-46AE-9919-1583FC24FCDC@xxxxxx Quote: > I have 2 email addresses and my ISP is att.yahoo.com PoP3 and SMTP one > works > and one doesn't - says doesn't recognize host name. Under Server - > settings > - advanced do I use same settings as incoming or log on using different > address and password? thank you |
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07-10-2009
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| | Re: setting up my email accounts on Windows Mail through Vista Thank you but today I figured it out - problem was pop server address had att.yahoo.net on one and att.yahoo.com on the other Now it's fine thank you for offering to assist me Marypat "Gary VanderMolen" wrote: Quote: > Right-click on your error message, copy, then paste it into a reply here. > We can't do much troubleshooting without the complete error message. > > -- > Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail) > > > "marypat" <marypat@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:05F649DF-30A9-46AE-9919-1583FC24FCDC@xxxxxx Quote: > >I have 2 email addresses and my ISP is att.yahoo.com PoP3 and SMTP one works > > and one doesn't - says doesn't recognize host name. Under Server - settings > > - advanced do I use same settings as incoming or log on using different email > > address and password? thank you |
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07-10-2009
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| | Re: setting up my email accounts on Windows Mail through Vista You're very welcome. Thanks for reporting back. -- Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail) "marypat" <marypat@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:7625D0CC-4089-4132-8764-655269AC5B36@xxxxxx Quote: > Thank you but today I figured it out - problem was pop server address had > att.yahoo.net on one and att.yahoo.com on the other > Now it's fine > thank you for offering to assist me > Marypat > > "Gary VanderMolen" wrote: > Quote: >> Right-click on your error message, copy, then paste it into a reply here. >> We can't do much troubleshooting without the complete error message. >> >> -- >> Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail) >> >> >> "marypat" <marypat@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:05F649DF-30A9-46AE-9919-1583FC24FCDC@xxxxxx Quote: >> >I have 2 email addresses and my ISP is att.yahoo.com PoP3 and SMTP one works >> > and one doesn't - says doesn't recognize host name. Under Server - settings >> > - advanced do I use same settings as incoming or log on using different email >> > address and password? thank you |
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