I get this error message when I try to open my mail in Outlook express 6,

The host 'POP3' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the
server name correctly. Account: 'POP3', Server: 'POP3', Protocol: SMTP, Port:
25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11001, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D

The host 'POP3' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the
server name correctly. Account: 'POP3', Server: 'POP3', Protocol: POP3, Port:
110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11001, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D

Can anyone help me resolve this please.

Hi Bluefish49,

The account is not configured correctly. Compare the server name given in
the error message with the server name for the account. The name might have
been changed by a 3rd-party spam or virus filtering (message scan) feature.
Disable such filtering (if in use) and change the name for the POP3
(Incoming) server, then check to see if mail can be received. Normal
anti-virus system scan will still fully protect a PC without message scan
enabled.

--
Tim K.
aka Kuay Tim
MS-MVP - Outlook Express
Lynnwood, WA
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"Bluefish49" wrote in message
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I get this error message when I try to open my mail in Outlook express 6,

The host 'POP3' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the
server name correctly. Account: 'POP3', Server: 'POP3', Protocol: SMTP,
Port:
25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11001, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D

The host 'POP3' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the
server name correctly. Account: 'POP3', Server: 'POP3', Protocol: POP3,
Port:
110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11001, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D

Can anyone help me resolve this please.

You need to contact your ISP to find out the appropriate settings for your
POP3 mail server, or they may have a web page that gives you that
information. Since you don't tell us what ISP you are connecting to, we
can't really be of much help other than to advise you that the setting you
show for a POP3 server name of "POP3" is most likely not correct and you
have made an error creating the account. The message is telling you that
when it states "The host POP3 could not be found" since there is no mail
host at that location.
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Please reply to newsgroup only so that others may be helped with your
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"Bluefish49" wrote in message
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I get this error message when I try to open my mail in Outlook express 6,

The host 'POP3' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered
the
server name correctly. Account: 'POP3', Server: 'POP3', Protocol: SMTP,
Port:
25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11001, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D

The host 'POP3' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered
the
server name correctly. Account: 'POP3', Server: 'POP3', Protocol: POP3,
Port:
110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11001, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D

Can anyone help me resolve this please.

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:02:02 -0700, Bluefish49 wrote:

I get this error message when I try to open my mail in Outlook express 6,

The host 'POP3' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the
server name correctly. Account: 'POP3', Server: 'POP3', Protocol: SMTP, Port:
25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11001, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D

The host 'POP3' could not be found. Please verify that you have entered the
server name correctly. Account: 'POP3', Server: 'POP3', Protocol: POP3, Port:
110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 11001, Error Number: 0x800CCC0D

Can anyone help me resolve this please.

'POP3' is not a normal name for a mail server. Unless it exists in your
ISP DNS system, or a local DNS system, it is an invalid host name.

Any server name you enter into MS Outlook Express must resolve to an IP
address, or MSOE _will_ fail to connect. Your ISP should be able to
supply the appropriate information.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum