Outlook Express and Outlook

[TheDcn]

I'm having a time trying to send any e-mail attachments over 30kbs or so. I have talked to my IP - earthlink - and after going through all sorts of trail and error testing they tell me it's a Outlook/Outlook Express problem. I'm not buying that. I think I may have setup, not set up something in Windows XP.
Has anyone experienced this problem after installing Windows XP pro? Any suggestions/help will really be appreciated.

Thank you

the deacon

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Have you done an upgrade to xp or a clean install? Does it happen in both OE & MO? Do you do any tweaking before this started?

 

[TheDcn]

HIpster, I have been having some fun with this one. Ended up doing a complete fresh install. Even reformatted my HD (needed it anyway).
An outgoing e-mail with attachment of any size will go to about 35% then stall and timeout on Outlook Express. On MO it goes to aorund 50% the will timeout. Have jacvked my timeuot to 3.5 min and it still dies. Havew not done any tweaking.

Regards

The Deacon

 

[Hipster Doofus]

I'd be looking at your isp if it is happening after a clean install. If they reckon it is not them try this. Open OE/tools/options/maintanence. Go down to trouble shooting & tick mail. Probably wouldn't hurt to tick them all. Then send an attachment, wait for it to fail then check the log. Only one tiny problem. I don't know where the log will end up or what it is called.

 

[TheDcn]

Followup, and for what it's worth. After hours of running all sorts of troublshooting decided to try another modem. Pulled the Intel(R)536EP V.92, and installed a Lucent V.92/V.44 56kPCI.
It solved the problem. Duno what the odds are for a bad modem but I was blessed with one.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Now if only we could all remember these 'fixes'. Life would be sweet. Good to hear you nailed it.