Error -23012 woes

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Alex H.

So here's an interesting situation...

Got a new hosting service and set up my POP accounts. I configured my
Entourage v.X with all the right settings -- the same ones that work with
Mail and Outlook Express on the PC -- and can't check the POP account for
incoming mail from within Entourage. Every time I try, I get a
failure-to-connect message with an error -23012.

I've already plunged into the MS KB and recognize that the error suggests a
problem in communication between my client and the mail server, and that the
error in question usually appears to Outlook or Outlook Express users when
the POP server doesn't respond properly to the query (specifically, to the
password/authentication).

If that were simply the case, then the exact same settings in two other mail
programs should generate a similar response. However, in my case they do
not. I used the exact same settings in Apple's Mail program and OE on my
WinXP machine and they both send/receive just fine.

Of course, Entourage is my main client.

What can I check out in Entourage that would explain this? My host has no
idea, because anything that stymies one program should effect them all.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance...
 
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