The Online/Offline in OE doesn't necessarily mean that OE has a
connection to the Internet. The File, Work Offline sets OE to not try
any Internet communication. This could be due to manually setting that
or a previous error. The Work Offline setting is shared with IE.

Check your settings in Outlook Express at Tools, Accounts, Mail/News,
Properties, Connection for each mail and news account. What do you have
set there? If you have multiple mail accounts, each could have
different settings. If you don't have OE set there to use a specific
dial-up connection, OE won't dial. However, if OE isn't set to dial,
your settings in IE at Tools, Internet Options, Connections could still
trigger dialing.


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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Dave_WI" wrote in message
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When opening OE after first starting up the computer, it trips the
dial-up
connection and everything works fine. After exiting OE and
disconnecting
from the internet, when I return to OE it shows that it is still
working
online and will not trip the dial-up connection. If I click
send/receive to
try to trip it, the program hangs up and will not close properly.
This was
an occasional annoyance at first, but it is happening every day now.
Anyone
have ideas on things I could check for a fix on this? Could it have
anything
to do with a recent upgrade to IE7?