OK. Thanks to a "wonderful" thief, I had to buy a new laptop. This has Windows Vista on it, not my favorite thing but I am too lazy to change it and it really isn't *that* bad. I had to get Microsoft Office 2007 and Outlook 2007 for it because I need it for school.

I have set Outlook up to the exact specifications given to me by my ISP. I can send and receive the test message just fine. However, when I try to send any messages to anyone who hasn't sent me an email already, they stay stuck in my Outbox.

I have tried turning off Norton Antivirus, Windows Firewall is set to off. I have tried turning off the popup blocker, I have made double sure that all the ports are the ones that the ISP directs me to use. My wife has Outlook 2007 set up on her computer and it works fine with these exact settings. I have Webroot Spy Sweeper but can find nothing in there that might block me sending out emails.

Maybe I should get out the holy water and the crucifix and go to town. I dunno.

I would try another mail program such as Outlook Express or Thunderbird and see if that works.

Second, even if another mail program works and Outlook 2007 doesn't, get rid of Norton. Don't disable it, uninstall it. Norton is notorious for screwing up email.

Third, while you say all the settings are the same, check if your ISP requires you to authenticate for the SMTP server.

Yeah, no experience with any version of outlook, but just to add onto washu's post get rid of norton, completely and then if you still want antivirus AVG has been my friend for a long time. Its completely free as well.

thunderbird FTW! i personally support avast anti virus, free just like AVG, but it says "virus database has been updated" when it updates it's files automatically, and that's just bad ass

Actually, after applying some Google-Fu, I think I found the cause of the problem, and it has nothing to do with Outlook, Norton, or the ISP. I imported the contacts in with a PDA device, a rather old one at least in terms of technology wise. Evidently, when you do this it does not resolve the email addresses, and so the messages just sit in the outbox.

After opening and saving the contact I wanted to send to, everything worked pretty well. I may remove Norton and go with AVG or Avast when my subscription runs out. Heard good things about both. Right now I just paid for Norton and I doubt they'll give me my money back, so I'll use it, crappy though it be, until then.

go outlook. its just such a lousy email client.

note that you probably want to remove norton BEFORE your subscription runs out. when the sub ends, sometimes it can be difficult to get rid of, tending to leave annoying fragments of itself behind on your hard disk (in the form of rundll hooks and vxd files) that can make your life un-fun.

Posted by neX_ go outlook. its just such a lousy email client. note that you probably want to remove norton BEFORE your subscription runs out. when the sub ends, sometimes it can be difficult to get rid of, tending to leave annoying fragments of itself behind on your hard disk (in the form of rundll hooks and vxd files) that can make your life un-fun.

I refuse to load Norton, it's a real hog and sometimes just plain buggy! I have some doubts as to if it can be "cleanly" uninstalled. It really digs into the registry like a hungry Alabama wood tick.
I've reloaded because of Norton...

AVG runs fine on all my XP machines including XPx64.
Switching to Fire Fox and Thunderbird have done a lot to keep my machines free of malware. Outlook express was never secure, and perhaps neither is Thunderbird; I screen everything on the server now.

Has anyone played with both Office 2003 and 2007? Any good reasons to upgrade to 2007 on an XP based system? I have another machine, but 2003 is cheaper and seems to do what I need it to do. I don't feel like doing the learning curve thing with 2007 either unless there's real benefits.
Any thoughts???

Posted by blackhawk AVG runs fine on all my XP machines including XPx64.

ive had a few users have problems with the mail proxy.

another thing that ive had some users do, is switch to using IMAP or webmail (either local server or gmail). its good for mobile users that need access to mail from remote locations. only good for 'power users' with actual brain cells tho.

Has anyone played with both Office 2003 and 2007? Any good reasons to upgrade to 2007 on an XP based system? I have another machine, but 2003 is cheaper and seems to do what I need it to do. I don't feel like doing the learning curve thing with 2007 either unless there's real benefits. Any thoughts???

openoffice.org ftw. unless you need to do some really hardcore stuff with excel or access, OO.o will work for just about any user, reads and writes to M$ formats (circa office 2k) and the learning curve is fairly low.

Posted by neX_ ive had a few users have problems with the mail proxy. another thing that ive had some users do, is switch to using IMAP or webmail (either local server or gmail). its good for mobile users that need access to mail from remote locations. only good for 'power users' with actual brain cells tho.

Every now and then I have to shut AVG down because it's getting too aggressive with something innocent it doesn't recognize, but it's not very often. I'm getting a permission error on my event viewer that's coming from AVG though on my XPx64 machine. grrrrrrrrr.
Not sure what it is, prolly something simple. Something on start up, and it's not causing any issues other than a few more seconds to load, so I track it down when I feel like it.

I had to straighten out a couple issues that were DCOM permissions related on that machine that were causing BSOD crashes, nasty ones.
Canon Zoom Browser was giving me side by side errors on all my machines; it was loading with a missing DLL *shakes head*

Posted by neX_ openoffice.org ftw. unless you need to do some really hardcore stuff with excel or access, OO.o will work for just about any user, reads and writes to M$ formats (circa office 2k) and the learning curve is fairly low.

The only app I really use is MS Word; I found a 2000 copy, back when DRM was so much easier
Open office does sound good and a lot of businesses have switched to it. On my Linux machine I still playing with that and other free, fully hackable apps.
Not near as easy or slick as MS (I guess), but...
MS really has pissed me off once too often

Posted by blackhawk The only app I really use is MS Word; I found a 2000 copy, back when DRM was so much easier

So, since it's obvious that you steal your Microsoft applications, probably by downloading them with some P2P program, is it fair to assume that is also how you got the version of Vista that you have so many problems with, and maybe it also explains why you have so many problems that no one else really has?

I mean, seriously, you "had to straighten out a couple issues that were DCOM permissions related?" I don't really see you as witting and troubleshooting your own distributed network component communication software.

I second the removal of Symantec/Norton, If you have trouble removing it google NONAV "the Norton/Symantec Removal Utility" It will make your computing life so much easier and faster.......


as for Outlook 2007 I havnt had any problems using it. Most ISP's require SMTP authentication but without it the Outlook test message wouldnt work either, you might try checking to see if they are using an alternative SMTP port "ie port 26" as a spam prevention technique.


if you dont get it figured out contact me over IM and i can work with you over remote.


JC