Did you double check that your firewall is allowing outbound and inbound
connections by Outlook?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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After furious head scratching, B Greenwood asked:
| Trying to set up Office Outlook 2003 on a new computer with Windows
| XP Pro Service Pack 3. When setting up and pressing "Test Account
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| verifies everything as OK. Please does anyone have any idea what
| might be the problem?
B Greenwood - 29 Apr 2006 23:45 GMT
Thank you for the reply Milly. At present the windows firewall is "off".
This is an install on a newly formatted harddrive and no other software
other than Microsoft Office 2003 installed. The connection is directly to
Comcast.net via there cable modem. This is the second time I have installed
the OS with the same results.
Bob