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Re: Mail not seeing the WORKING connection
"jarvismac" <jarvismac.36jln0@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
news:jarvismac.36jln0@no-mx.forums.net...
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> Mail refuses to use the current broadband connection - the vista home
> pc was using a usb modem and working fine - this has been completly
> removed. the broadband connection using router has been install.
> Internet work fine, but Mail - when you send/retrieve it pops up window
> asking to select a dialup connection - their are no options to choose
> b/c their are no connections.
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> If you click Set Up A Connection- it then says A internet connection
> is already connected click here to suft web which if clicked goes and
> surf's
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> As a temporary get round ive installed thunderbird which works fine,
> but I want to return to mail - especially as i have hundred of previous
> emails within it.
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> Any help very much appreciated
>
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> jarvismac
Under Internet Explorer, click on Tools, then Connections. If there
are any dial-up connections listed, click on them, then Remove,
then Apply. If there if no dot in the circle before Never dial a
connection, click on this circle, then Apply. Click on OK.
Under Windows Mail, click on Tools, then Accounts, then your
email account, then Properties, then Connection. If there is a
check mark in the box before Always connect to this account
using:, click on this box, then Apply. Click on OK, then Close.
Under Windows Mail, click on Tools, then Options, then
Connection. If there is no check mark in the box before
Ask before switching dial-up connections, click on this box,
then Apply. If there is a check mark in the box before Hang up
after sending and receiving, click on this box, then Apply.
Click on OK.
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