Did you make an exception in your firewall rules for Outlook?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, LWG asked:

| After I applied SP2 outlook wont send or receive email. I check my
| firewall and it doesnt appeart to be going out at all. I have verified
| that outlook express works with the same email account information
| etc.. Has anyone seen this? I get the 0x80042108 error when sending.
| It says Outlook is unable to connecg to your incoming (POP3)
| email-server.
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| you help is appreciated...