Outlook 2007 problems with sending and recieving emails?

After installing Windows VISTA for Business and the latest Office 2007 I ran into a number of problems with sending and recieving emails via Outlook 2007. I had imported the various email accounts from my previous Outlook 2003 (I have quite a few for the various websites and domains that I manage) and made sure all passwords and mail server details were correct.

The first issue I ran into had to do with the contsant barrage of popups that ask me for the password of each account. Now you can image my trouble with over 40 email accounts. And then when I try to test the mail setting of each account I get an error in the send portion.

So I tried to change the “Outgoing server” tab of the settings for the email account as you see in the image below.

This time I got a different error message. So Changed the settings as shown below.

Still no luck. So finally I tried the option show below and it worked like magic. Now this setting works on for certain mail servers. For example I host with different companies for my different websites. This option worked for one perticular host but for another the option above this worked.

For changing settings for Yahoo mail account in Outlook 2007 try this help section.

Upgrading to Windows VISTA

Last week I started noticing erratic behaviour from my windows xp os. My IOLO anti-virus software picked up a couple of viruses, and that probably was the cause. When I opened one too many applications, the desktop would go all static and/or blank and it would take forever to close the applications to free up memory.

So on Sunday, I decided to reinstall the OS so that any corrupted files could be fixed. I started the process and opted for an upgrade rather than a clean install. Half way through the process I got a blue screen and a physical memort dump! I restarted the machine and the opening screen was the reinstallation process resuming. Again the blue screen! Another attempt resulted in the same blue screen!

I guess there must have been some hardware issues, so I disconnected all perpheral devices and tried to reboot normally. I was dismayed when the machine would no longer boot up my normal windows OS but would rather jump straight to the reinstall. I tried the “last known good configuration” with the same result. After repeated attempts, including safe mode, the reinstall screen would also not show up. The only thing I could see was a black screen with the mouse pointer.

Because all my business files and correspondence were on this machine I started to panic. I went out to PC world and bought an exclusor. I asked the guy at the counter for a exclusor and showed him the hard disk (IDE) that I took along with me. He points me to a product and says that should work fine. So I buy that and a copy of Windows Vista Business (Upgrade Only) and get back home in a hurry to retrieve the data. When I opened the exclusor I find to my dismay that it is only for PATA hard drives and mine is SATA.

So I go back to PC World and talk to an expert this time. He says that it would take a few days to get the SATA exclusor and suggested that perhaps I should get another IDE hard drive and load the OS on to that and connent my current one as a slave so I can retrieve the data. So I buy a 250 GB SATA drive and connent it to my machine. Bingo! Works like charm.

I loaded Windows VISTA and must say I am quite impressed with the overall look and feel and also the improved plug and play. The network connectivity has been tremendously improved and context sensitive links to system tools is fantastic!

I will be exploring the OS more and will be updating you.

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