outlook express keeps trying to dial out (on broadband)
Customer recently converted over from dialup to broadband… however, outlook express continued to try dialling out using the modem.
The first obvious place to look is in internet options, and make sure the connections tab has the “never dial a connection” setting active (which it did).
OK, I start poking around in OE, as I couldn’t see how it could ignore the internet settings (particularly in the options section, under the connection tab, but it all looked like it wouldn’t use dialup).
I then stumbled upon tools -> accounts -> properties -> connection tab
there was another option to “always connect using:”… and dial-up was selected.
I disabled the option, and OE finally started to work “normally”.
Absolutly amazing im having this exact same problem. but mine occured while using broadband and changing to an ethernet connection cable and modem. Why the hell my outlook express doesnt automatically detect the connection settings to use is beyond me. (even though i told it too several times)..
So after 1hr or so of trying to understand it all i figured google could hold the answer, and low n behold ! You my good man, have just saved me from days and days of frustratingly painful and tedious information reading and searching.. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU !