the fix for me was to remove office and reinstall. a pain but i needed
my mail. i guess i will not do any service packs for a while... Or
maybe more research on my part before i do. thx for your quick reply.

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:59:20 -0400, LWG
wrote:

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.

you help is appreciated...