Socket Error : 0x800C012E

[Sauron]

Hey,

This is popping up with my fathers outlook express, and it won't him recieve or send email. Any ideas?

Error is :

An unknown error has occurred. Account: 'mail.comcast.net', Server: 'mail.comcast.net', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800C012E

[rightcoast]

Try these...

"Try - click Start / Find / Files or Folders type in "outbox.dbx", press Find Now / Edit / Select All / File / Delete and restart your computer (Delete outbox)."

"Outlook Express *.dbx mail files are set to read only. Click Start, point to Find, then click on Files or Folders, In the Named box, type "*.dbx", in the Look In, C drive, then Find Now / Right click each *.dbx file, click Properties & clear the Read Only check box. Click Apply, then Close. Note the *.dbx files should only have Archive checked."

This seems like the most likely problem to me though....
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q233264/

[glc]

I'm betting your .dbx files are read-only - I think I warned you about that when we were discussing importing them back in after the problem you had. Did you by chance just copy them in when the import failed?

[Sauron]

Yeah, I did, but I ALSO made them readable, gimme some credit glc...I am not as stupid as I look :P I don't know what went wrong, but I created a new account on MS Express for him, and its working fine now, imported all of his email from his old account. Some little bug I guess. I don't know. At least it wasn't too hard to fix.