Cant send emails through Office Outlook

If you are trying to send or receive an email in Microsoft Outlook and the password doesn't work, you can check a number of different things. Microsoft Outlook validates your email account with your email provider using various settings. Once it has validated your settings, it will send or receive email. It is not only useful to set up your email correctly but essential if you wish to use Microsoft Outlook.

Gather all of the email settings for your email account. These will be located on your email provider's website in an FAQ or support section. If in doubt contact your email provider to provide all of the settings. Look for any of the following terms: POP, SMTP, IMAP, SSL, SPA, server, and port number. Make a note of all of these. Determine when the problem exists. Check if the problem occurs when sending an email, receiving an email, or both. If the password error only happens with either sending or receiving, this narrows down the source of the problem. Click "Start," type "Outlook" and press "Enter" to open Microsoft Outlook. Click "File > Info > Account Settings." Select your email account and click "Change." Click the "Incoming mail server" field, if your error was when receiving email but not sending. Enter the full "incoming mail server" address as provided by your email provider. If your email is "IMAP" then change the "Account Type" to display "IMAP." Click "More Settings > Advanced." Make sure that the incoming server "Port" number is the same as your email provider stipulates. If your provider requires SSL, then click "This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)." Click "OK." Click the "Outgoing mail server" field, if your error was when sending email. Enter the full outgoing server address. Click "More Settings > Advanced." Make sure the "Outgoing server" port is correctly set. If your email provider requires encryption, then select the correct type from the drop-down menu. Click "OK." Click the "password" field and make sure you have entered the correct password. If your mail provider requires "SPA," then click the "Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)" to enable it. Click "Next" and then "Finish." Your password should now work. Hope it helps.

Follow the below mentioned steps to set Outlook as your default email client.

Steps for Windows 7 and Vista -

- Click Start and in Start search box type 'default programs'.
- In Search results, click default programs under Programs.
- Now click on 'Set your default programs' and highlight Microsoft Outlook.
- Click on 'Set this program as default' and click OK.

Steps for Windows XP and earlier platforms -

- Start Internet Explorer. Select Tools -> Internet Option -> Programs tab.
- Under Email, select Microsoft Outlook and click OK.

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Hi,

Welcome to Fixya. I would like to know your email account so that we can check the settings on your outlook 2010.

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Hi,

If you are not connected to the internet, you can only work offline, and for example, if you write an email it will not send until you do connect to the internet.

You can configure Outlook 2007 to work with Yahoo.

If you want to "POP" your Yahoo! Mail into your Outlook 2007 application, here's how:

1. From the Tools menu, select "Account Settings." If you do not see "Account Settings," place your cursor over the two arrows at the bottom of the list to display more choices.
2. On the Email tab, click New.
3. Check the box next to the first option, "Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP" and click Next.
4. In the Your Name box, type your name as you'd like it to appear when you send a message.
5. In the Email Address box, enter your Yahoo! Mail address (for example, "[email protected]").
6. Check the box for "Manually configure server settings or additional server types" and click Next.
7. Check the box next to the first option "Internet E-mail" and click Next.
8. In the Server Information area, under "Account Type" select POP 3 from the pull-down menu.
9. In the Incoming mail server field, enter: pop.mail.yahoo.com.sg
10. In the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) field, enter: smtp.mail.yahoo.com.sg
11. In the Login Information area, in the User Name field, enter your Yahoo! ID (your email address without the "@yahoo.com").
12. In the Password box, enter your Yahoo! Mail password.
13. Check "Remember Password" if you don't want Outlook to prompt you for your password each time you check your mail. Handy!
14. Do not check the box labeled "Log on using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)."
15. Click on the More Settings button.
16. Click on the Outgoing Server tab and check the box next to "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication."
17. Click on the Advanced tab.
18. Under "Incoming Server (POP3)", check the box next to "This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)". The port number in the "Incoming Server (POP3)" field should automatically change from 110 to 995. If it doesn't, make sure the port number is set to 995.
19. Under "Outgoing Server (SMTP)", check the box next to "This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL)". Enter port number "465" in the "Outgoing Server (SMTP)" field.
20. If you'd like to keep a copy of your email messages on the Yahoo! Mail server, check the box next to "Leave a copy of messages on the server." If you want to delete your messages from the Yahoo! Mail server after viewing them in Outlook, don't check the box.
21. Click the OK button.
22. Click the Next button on the Email Account Wizard, then click Finished.
23. Would you like your Yahoo! Mail inbox to be your primary inbox in Outlook 7? If so, click the Tools menu and select "Account Settings." If you don't see "Account Settings," place your cursor over the two arrows at the bottom of the list to display more choices.
24. From the list, select the pop.yahoo account you've just added and click the Set as Default button.
25. Click the Close button. You're done!

Troubleshooting instructions
If you followed the above configuration steps, you should be all set. However, if you cannot send or receive mail with your email client, try the following tips.
The Yahoo! Mail SMTP server requires authentication. Make sure you have enabled SMTP authentication. To turn this setting on, follow these steps:

1. From the Tools menu, choose "Account Settings."
2. Select the "E-mail" tab.
3. Select your Yahoo! Mail account and click Change.
4. Click on the "Outgoing Server" tab.
5. Check the box next to "My Server Requires Authentication."
6. Please make sure that "Log on using" is not checked.
7. Click OK.

To control deletion of messages from the Yahoo! Mail server:

1. From the Tools menu, select "Account Settings."
2. Click on the "Email" tab.
3. Select your Yahoo! Mail account and click Change.
4. Click on the "Advanced" tab.
5. Check "Leave a copy of messages on server" if you want to save your Yahoo! Mail messages on the Yahoo! Mail server as well as on your local computer. Please note that setting your email client to remove messages from the server will cause your messages to be deleted from the server. Once the messages are deleted, we are unable to retrieve them.
6. Click OK.
7. Close Microsoft Outlook and restart.

We strongly recommend that you enable SSL for both POP and SMTP, as detailed in the above instructions. This will ensure that your Yahoo! ID, password and email messages are transmitted securely between your mail client and the Yahoo! servers. However, if you choose to not use SSL for SMTP, your email client will likely default the SMTP port to 25. If your ISP blocks port 25 or if you're unable to send email, then you will need to use port 587 when sending via Yahoo!'s SMTP server. To make this change, please follow the directions below:

1. From the "Tools" menu, select "Account Settings"
2. Select your Yahoo! POP account and click on Change.
3. Click on the "Advanced" tab.
4. Click OK and Close.

What email client are you using? As I understand from your rather brief description you asking how to verify if your email is the default account.

For example if running MS Office Outlook 2003:

Click tools > email accounts > tick view or change existing email accounts > click next.

Under email account window, if you have multiple accounts, select the one you want to use and click on Set as default > click finish.

But like I said would want to know what email client you using?

Either your email service has changed their outgoing server or they are having issues. Contact your email provided to ensure you have the correct smtp server listed in your email program..

You can't receive emails? You need to give more information. Are you using a Web mail (i.e. Yahoo mail, Gmail) or are you using an e-mail client (i.e. Outlook 2003/2007; Outlook Express)?

Email clients uses two types of account, POP3 and IMAP.

If you are using an e-mail client like Outlook 2003, you need to change the incoming mail server. Please follow the steps below:

For Outlook 2003/2007:

1. Open your Outlook and then click on Tools.
2. Go to Accounts or Email Accounts.
3. Go to Mail tab and you will see the account that you have created (like pop.gmail.com or imap.gmail.com)
4. Double-click on pop or imap account and then go to Advanced tab.
5. You will see the Incoming Mail server.

By default, the incoming mail server is set to 110, you may change it to 995 and then select SSL. Then close and reopen your Outlook and click the Send/Receive button.

Now, if you're just using a Web e-mail like Gmail or Yahoo mail, you need to check your storage. There's a possibility that you reached the quota storage of your email that's why you are not receiving emails. You need to contact your email provider for this problem.

If you have a router on your network, you need to check the router settings and perform a Port Forwarding. You have to open the port 110 or 995 so that you could receive e-mails.

These are the things that you need to check and consider.

Have a great day!

Have you ever had Outlook configured correctly to access your email server and download messages?
It sounds like you have set outlook as the default email client but you have not yet configured the email account settings within outlook so that outlook knows how to connect to your mail server online.
Please refer to this link or this link for instructions on how to do this.
Check the programs tab of Internet Options in control panel and make sure Outlook appears as the default email client.

If you follow the instructions in this tutorial you should be able to enter your administrative account and ensure that the Office Diagnostics program runs with sufficient privileges...I believe that will correct this error message...
If not, If you have correctly configured your email accounts within outlook and outlook is set as the default, please see this posting and the recommended change to correct the situation.

I hope this information allows you to resolve this issue. If you need further assistance, please post back with a comment to this thread.
If I've managed to answer your question or solve a problem, please take just a moment to rate this post....thanks!

If you are using Microsoft office outlook 2007, open your outlook, a wizard will appear, under email accounts click yes,click next, then under auto account setup, click check box on manually configure server settings then next, choose a.) internet email, (if you have your incoming and outgoing mail server), then next, then supply all information needed, account type pop3, name, email address, account name (must be the complete email address) incoming and outgoing then password, then next then hit finish or choose b.) Microsoft exchange (if you have an exchange server and you are on a network or a company) then next, fill out the information needed, your exchange server and your email address then click finish.
If you are using Microsoft office 2003, the process is just the same..
but, if you already have an existing email on your outlook and you want to modify it, go to tools, then email accounts (2003) or tools, option, mail setup, then email accounts, (2007), on the new window, double click the existing mail then supply again all the informations needed: name, email address, account name (must be the complete email address) incoming and outgoing then password. test if successful by sending an email to your own email address

check the mail settings for receiving and sending in tme mail options i think sending mail setting is wrong