Outlook 2003: searching mail servers cancelled on testing acount

[fbtata1020]

New installation of slipstreamed WindowsXP SP3 with IE7.
No additional Firewall and/or anti-virus program installed yet.
Outlook 2003 (Office component) installed. On testing account settings
"searching mail server cancelled". So, can not connect to mailservers.
Needs Outlook 2003 an installed Outlook Express? Or are only some files of
OE needed? If yes, which files?

 

[DL]

Have you added the mail account using info supplied by your ISP?
Outlook is completely seperate from Outlook Express, which is a component of
the o/s and IE

 

[DL]

I dont know of any issues with OL2003 & IE7 both coexisted fine on my winxp
sys as they do on my Vista PC.

 

[fbtata1020]

After a fresh Windows XP installation (only SP3 and drivers slipstreamed; not
IE7) and a Office 2003 installation, Outlook 2003 works fine. No
"cancellation" of "finding servers" during "testing accounts settings"
anymore.
After that installation of IE7 (over IE6 with Outlook Express) no troubles
with Outlook 2003.
So, I think slipstreaming IE7 caused a "mail server finding" problem for
Outlook 2003.

 

[fbtata1020]

Now, IE7 and Outlook 2003 coexist also on this PC. However, originally it was
IE6 (with Outlook Express) and Outlook 2003.
I wonder if DL's installation was IE7 and Outlook 2003 from the beginning
(without any installation IE6 with Outlook Express before).

 

[DL]

No, it was origonally IE6, currently OE6 is installed