I have outlook 2007 + vista home premium. Please forgive me if this has been asked, I searched and couldn't find anything on this specifically.
When I initially set up my outlook it worked like a charm, with an Imap & pop3 account.
As far as I know nothing has changed (outside of updates) and now the computer will not connect to either email server. I tried removing the email accounts and resetting/reinstalling them. I tried changing the Imap account to pop3 and then back to imap -- none of which worked.
The error gives me is as follows: "Log onto incoming mail server (IMAP): The connection to the server failed." and "Send test e-mail message: Outlook cannot connect to your outgoing (SMTP) e-mail server. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP)."
Its always the same error. My internet connection is working fine (i.e. Mozilla and IE7 both work, ping works, I have a working IP, etc.) If it matters, I have tried this on two different internet connections as well.
Based on this, I believe it is some security or firewall or other setting that is blocking outgoing access to the email server. Anybody know what it is? Any ideas?
Thanks for the help -- sorry for the long post.