Outlook Express setup on Windows on a Mac

[Meboard]

Hi

Attempting to set up Outlook Express in Windows (XP Professional ver 5.1) running through Parallels (build 1970) on a Mac (ver 10.4.11).

The incoming mail is successful but the out going mail wont go.

Have tried numerous settings seen on help page without success.

Generally receive the password box on screen click OK and it reappears shortly afterwards (over and over this occurs)

Used settings for Mail on Mac (smtp.tools.sky.com:email addresss @sky.com which it doesn't recognise. Left out the email address which it does recognise but wont send messages.

Any help

M

[Ratcliffes]

Did you remember to use the SSL port (465) for outgoing mail?
Detailed instructions for googlemail are here: Outlook Express - Help Center

Just replace the googlemail servernames with the Sky ones.

Question - Why would you want to useOutlook Express in favour of the excellent OSX Mac Mail?

[Meboard]

Thanks for the reply

Error messsages received

An unknown error has occurred. Subject 'Help!', Account: 'pop.lineone.net', Server: 'smtp.tools.sky.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 465, Secure(SSL): Yes, Error Number: 0x800CCC0B

The connection to the server has failed. Account: 'pop.lineone.net', Server: 'pop.lineone.net', Protocol: POP3, Port: 995, Secure(SSL): Yes, Socket Error: 10060, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

Reason for this is when emailing documents from Coral Draw that runs in windows it always uses Outlook Express to try to email them. But I cannot get it to work,

[PaulSky]

Your user name for email using software tools like this is always your full email address. If you get repeated requests for password and user name popping up you can try
www.sky.com/unlock and see if that helps.