I have two PCs on a LAN. Both are running XP SP2, OE6, Zone Alarm and AVG.



One system fails to connect to the mail server and one works as it should.

The Error Number is 0x800CCC90.



Here is what I have done so far:



Gone to tool accountsmailproperties and compared the settings between the
two PCs. They are identical



Deleted the mail account on the faulty box and did a reinstall of the mail
account.



Went to my ISPs home page and changed the password there and then went to
each PC and changed to that new password.



None of this has fixed the problem.



Oddly enough I have friend on the same ISP with the same problem and at
first it was easy to blame the ISP except that I one PC without the problem
blew that idea away.



What next?



Charlie

Post the complete error message.

OT: Using MS Word as your default HTML editor (IE Tools Internet Options
Programs) to compose OE messages is not a good idea. If you must do so,
only use ENTER to begin a new paragraph. To begin a new line, use
Shift+ENTER to avoid the unnecessary line breaks seen in your post.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org


Charlie Bress wrote:
I have two PCs on a LAN. Both are running XP SP2, OE6, Zone Alarm and AVG.



One system fails to connect to the mail server and one works as it should.

The Error Number is 0x800CCC90.



Here is what I have done so far:



Gone to tool accountsmailproperties and compared the settings between
the
two PCs. They are identical



Deleted the mail account on the faulty box and did a reinstall of the mail
account.



Went to my ISPs home page and changed the password there and then went to
each PC and changed to that new password.



None of this has fixed the problem.



Oddly enough I have friend on the same ISP with the same problem and at
first it was easy to blame the ISP except that I one PC without the
problem
blew that idea away.



What next?



Charlie

The error message is below

The server responded with an error. Account 'mail.comcast.net', Server
'mail.comcast.net', Protocol: POP3 Response: '-ERR AVG POP3 proxy Server:
Cannot connect to the mail server!, Port110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error
0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC90

OT: Oops! Sorry about that messed up post. I didn't realize that would
happen.

Charlie

"PA Bear" wrote in message
...
Post the complete error message.

OT: Using MS Word as your default HTML editor (IE Tools Internet Options
Programs) to compose OE messages is not a good idea. If you must do so,
only use ENTER to begin a new paragraph. To begin a new line, use
Shift+ENTER to avoid the unnecessary line breaks seen in your post.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org

You are using AVG's email scanner, which, like the other AV programs, will
muck up OE, such as you are finding out.

You need to disable the email scanning. In many cases, this still doesn't
solve the problem, so you'll need to uninstall AVG, and do a custom
reinstall and do not install the email scanner.

Tom

"Charlie Bress" wrote in message
...
|
| The error message is below
|
| The server responded with an error. Account 'mail.comcast.net', Server
| 'mail.comcast.net', Protocol: POP3 Response: '-ERR AVG POP3 proxy Server:
| Cannot connect to the mail server!, Port110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error
| 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC90
|
| OT: Oops! Sorry about that messed up post. I didn't realize that would
| happen.
|
| Charlie
|
| "PA Bear" wrote in message
| ...
| Post the complete error message.
|
| OT: Using MS Word as your default HTML editor (IE Tools Internet
Options
| Programs) to compose OE messages is not a good idea. If you must do
so,
| only use ENTER to begin a new paragraph. To begin a new line, use
| Shift+ENTER to avoid the unnecessary line breaks seen in your post.
| --
| ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
| MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
| AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org
|
|
|

Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It provides no
additional protection and even Symantec says it's not necessary:

paste
Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that
are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans
incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and
email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To
make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep
Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have
the most recent virus definitions.
/paste
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106

Troubleshooting error messages that you receive when you are using OL and OE
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813514
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org

Charlie Bress wrote:
The error message is below

The server responded with an error. Account 'mail.comcast.net', Server
'mail.comcast.net', Protocol: POP3 Response: '-ERR AVG POP3 proxy Server:
Cannot connect to the mail server!, Port110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error
0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC90

OT: Oops! Sorry about that messed up post. I didn't realize that would
happen.

Charlie

"PA Bear" wrote in message
...
Post the complete error message.

OT: Using MS Word as your default HTML editor (IE Tools Internet
Options
Programs) to compose OE messages is not a good idea. If you must do
so,
only use ENTER to begin a new paragraph. To begin a new line, use
Shift+ENTER to avoid the unnecessary line breaks seen in your post.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org

Try this. On the PC that is working, open the accounts option in tools.
select the mail account and click on the button "export".
Save to a floppy or USB drive.
On the PC that is not working, go to the accounts option and click on the button "import".
Point to the file you just saved with export and now you know the two accounts are identical.
It the second PC does not work now, you have a system fault.

"Charlie Bress" wrote in message ...
I have two PCs on a LAN. Both are running XP SP2, OE6, Zone Alarm and AVG.



One system fails to connect to the mail server and one works as it should.

The Error Number is 0x800CCC90.



Here is what I have done so far:



Gone to tool accountsmailproperties and compared the settings between the two PCs. They are
identical



Deleted the mail account on the faulty box and did a reinstall of the mail account.



Went to my ISPs home page and changed the password there and then went to each PC and changed to
that new password.



None of this has fixed the problem.



Oddly enough I have friend on the same ISP with the same problem and at first it was easy to blame
the ISP except that I one PC without the problem blew that idea away.



What next?



Charlie