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Does Your Computer Disconnect After Checking Mail ? Here Is How to Fix
It.
Mail Disconnects
Outlook Express and Eudora Pro both have options to Hang up your
connection when it finishes downloading your mail.
To turn off this option:
Outlook Express 4, 5, & 6:
- Click the Tools menu and
choose Options.
- Click onto the Connection or
Dialup tab.
- Make sure the option to Hang
up after Sending and Receiving is NOT checked, and that the Ask before
switching dialup connections is marked.
Eudora Pro:
- Click the Tools menu and
choose Options.
- Highlight the Internet Dialup
category on the left.
- Uncheck the Hangup after
receiving and sending option.
- If you want your Internet
connection to stay on after you close Eudora, uncheck the Close
connection on Exit option.
If after unchecking the Hang up after sending and receiving option in
Outlook Express is still disconnecting when you check mail, it is possible
that your Internet Explorer connection settings and Outlook Express
Connection settings do not match.
Outlook Express 4:
- Click the Tools menu and
choose Accounts.
- Click the Mail tab. You must
do this for each Mail account in this screen:
- Highlight your Chief
Internet Mail account and click the Properties button.
- Click the Connection tab.
- Choose the option to Connect
using my phone line, then Make sure that your Chief Internet connection
is In the Dial-up Networking connection box below.
- Click OK.
- Close the Internet Accounts
window.
- Click the Tools menu and
choose Options.
- Click the Dial Up tab.
- Choose the option to Ask me
if I would like to dial a connection, and make sure the Warn me before
switching dial up connections is marked.
- Click OK.
Outlook Express 5 & 6:
- Click the Tools menu and
choose Accounts.
- Click the Mail tab. You must
do this for each Mail account in this screen:
- Highlight your Chief
Internet Mail account and click the Properties button.
- Click the Connection tab.
- Uncheck the option to Always
connect to this account using.
- Click OK.
- Close the Internet Accounts
window.
- Click the Tools menu again,
and choose Options.
- Click the Connection tab.
- Make sure Ask before
switching dial up connections is marked, then click OK.
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