Let’s Start Again: Account Configuration

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brantgurga — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 02:56:14 GMT

This is a very cool feature, and it is definitely one that is putting the user first.

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elegault — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:01:43 GMT

In the future I'd like to see something similar to how VCR's automatically configure the time by reading a signal on a designated channel (usually PBS). This might be feasible for broadband connections, given the proper security of course. If the cable providers can send packets with info specific to the subsciber at the destination node on their network, maybe they can not only bundle news server names, but the user name and password as well.

Then all e-mail applications need to do is learn how to detect and read these signals (which would either be pervasive in the stream, or call/response) to auto-configure a user's e-mail account. A pipe dream? Technically impossible or impractical?

Eric Legault
MVP - Outlook

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Mike Dimmick — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:27:51 GMT

You might need to try parent domains - my ISP (Demon Internet) still hands out yourhostnamehere.demon.co.uk names to users of the Home/Office service. So I have @dimmick.demon.co.uk addresses. However, my mail servers are pop3.demon.co.uk and post.demon.co.uk.

I did wonder if it might be possible to achieve something with SRV DNS records.

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ericduerr — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:11:04 GMT

I'm trying to configure Outlook for RPC over HTTP. After installing the app, I can't find "Connect to my Exchange mailbox using HTTP:" under the connection tab.

re: Let’s Start Again: Account Configuration

bvleur — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 01:47:02 GMT

How do you prevent the guessing procedure to accidentaly send the password to some other server?

As mentioned above, some ISPs hand out customername.demon.co.uk. What if (for example) Demon would use "mail.demon.co.uk" as their real mailserver and as a customer I choose the customer name "pop". If your guessing procedure guesses "pop.demon.co.uk" first then passwords of new outlook 12 users will be send to some fake POP3 server I run at some funny port.

Or are you guessing that all these ISPs are blocking these kind of customer names or all of the ports you guess?

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frnkblk — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 05:12:39 GMT

Great idea, this XML file thing. What would it take for you to pass this on to the Outlook Express team? We are an ISP and have to assist so many users with this config issue.

Frank

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mnerec — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:28:42 GMT

It is nice that you are reworking it!

While you are at it, you should work on the way the dialog functions in general.

In Outlook 2003 it is a wizard with Next, Prev and Finish buttons. I've always found this very confusing, and when I have to set up multiple adresses I often end up closing the dialog.

Add to that the lack of a "copy account" function, it can get pretty frustrating configuring several account on the same domain.

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re: Let’s Start Again: Account Configuration

Judge — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 01:55:42 GMT

This New Account Configuration feature is fine. However, how do you get around the fact that Outlook 2007 does not allow different POP3 and SMTP servers, or at least, if they are not the same lenght in, Outlook 2007 does not allow it.

For example, I am using a GoDaddy email account and GoDaddy requires the following setup: POP3: mail.mydomain.com; SMTP: smtpout.secureserver.net

Outlook 12 does not allow the above set up. Outlook will cut off the last few characters to make it the same length as the POP3 server, and of course I will not be able to send emails.

How do I get around this in Outlook 200?

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matt mcgill — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 06:20:54 GMT

I'm having a problem with Outlook 12 beta: I have it on two machines, and both are configured to an exchange server. Worked fine for a long time on both. On one machine, outlook crashed every time it opened. Once, there was some kind of an error with One Note 12. I know this because when starting Outlook, it asked be if I wanted to disable the One Note add in. (I didn't). the following things haven't helped:
I ran the recovery thing
I uninstalled one note. still crashed. I "repaired" office, still crashes
I uninstalled outlook, and re installed it. still crashes.
I removed the exchange account, no more crashing.
I added the exchange account, (and deleted the old file) and it crashes again...

any thoughts? should I uninstall all of office?

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Jorrit — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:17:45 GMT

I have searched for a long time but I can't figure out where I can file bugreports. It's a Beta isn't it? Isn't there supposed to be a public website where you can file bugs and other things alike?

I would like to mention that the Outlook 2003 bug which prevents you from using multiple IMAP accounts on the same server is still here (error number 0x8004DF0B)

re: Let’s Start Again: Account Configuration

engfelt — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:30:15 GMT

When you create a new pop3 account (manual) settings. The "Test acount" button is active and inactive in wrong situations. It is active from the beginning when it should not be active and it is inactive if you tab down a bit. It should be inactive until at least one server is filled in. When only one server is filled in it should give a warning that you can only send or only receive messages with this account. This would make it even more easy for the users to test their accounts.

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LeoNel — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:01:17 GMT

Does anyone know where to find the settings for the autodiscover.xml file?

re: Let’s Start Again: Account Configuration

DirkTheDork — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:44:01 GMT

Do you have a url to any reference information about the Auto Account Setup xml file?

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