I would try setting up a completely new Outlook profile first through
Control Panel | Mail

Also, I'm curious - what exactly does this installer Window say?

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-Patrick Reed



"CampaMan" wrote in message
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Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
"CampaMan" wrote in message
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It gets very frustrating when you can not get something as well known as
Office 2003 to actually work.

I imagine so, but since a ton of people do use Outlook 2003 on Vista, it
can't be a systemic problem. In your original post, you said you "tried
all sorts". Please be specific in describing what you've done. State
EXACTLY how you configured your account (with the exception of real mail
addresses or passwords). State EXACTLY what errors you see, if any, when
you click Send/Receive. Enable diagnostic logging and see that's
happening between Outlook and the server. Look in the Event log for any
Outlook-related events. You have to give us more information than simply
"I can't make it work."

The email account is a pop3 account via BT. If you use the test connection
in the account settings dialog, the test works and everything reports as
being OK. The test email is sent, that I know as if I log onto my mail
account with Vista's Windows Mail the message arrives.

If you press the Send Receive button on Outlooks toolbar nothing happens,
the button just goes back to being un-selected. If you go into Outlooks
options and got to the Mail Setup Tab and click the Send/Receive... button
to set send receive options, nothing happens.

On Outlooks menu, Tools, Send/Receive, Send Receive Settings, Define Send
Receive groups, nothing happens, no dialogs etc.

There are NO error messages.

The Event Log has nothing, it is as though certain parts of Outlook are
not working.

I have tried the Detect and repair multiple times also from other office
programs, and have alo un-installed and re-intstalled multiple times.

As mentioned I also have the installer window popping up in all but Access
and Excell, which means they take 1-2 minutes to load before you can use
them, i mention this incase the problems are connected.