Hello, my friend is having issues with his outlook 2003. It was working fine before. However, just when he got a Linksys WRT54G router, things turned sour. It worked perfectly when he first connected the router to the computer. Outlook was sending and receiving messages correctly. But when he unpluged the router and pluged his computer directly back to the modem, outlook stopped working. It gives an error message stating something about not being able to connect the the SMTP and POP3 server cause its may not support SSL. It also says check port and/or proxy or something like that. Funny thing is that under the connection settings, he has SSL disabled. Also, he isn't running through a proxy server. Ports are left at default too. We tried plugging the router back in and it didn't work.... very strange. Anyways, here are the email servers if needed: SMTP: shawmail.cg.shawcable.net POP3: shawmail.cg.shawcable.net Thanks in advanced! PS: I don't know anything about outlook since i don't use it... so please try to be simple ;) Asus P5W DH Dlx C2D E6600@3.78GHzair cool CrucialBallistix 2GB PC2-6400 RAM5-5-5-15 Sapphire Radeon X1900GT Mushkin XP650 PSU

Is your friend obtaining an IP address? Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

wat do u mean optaining an ip address? on his router or computer? Cause, both of em have IPs. Asus P5W DH Dlx C2D E6600@3.78GHz air cooled CrucialBallistix 2GB PC2-6400 RAM5-5-5-15 Sapphire Radeon X1900GT Mushkin XP650 PSU 640GB 320BG X 2 7200rpm HDD 36.7GB WD Raptor 2X DV

On the problem computer...can he load webpages? What is the physical setup? router>modem>PC? Or modem>router>PC? Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

yes, he can load pages.... internet works fine. heres the setup: Modem>Router> PC1 via RJ45 > PC2 via Wireless Adapter Asus P5W DH Dlx C2D E6600@3.78GHzair cool CrucialBallistix 2GB PC2-6400 RAM5-5-5-15 Sapphire Radeon X1900GT Mushkin XP650 PSU

lol, nver mind. prob solved. It was norton firewall that was blocking it all along.. sigh. I like zonealarm a lot better, but my friend's parents are too ignorant. Asus P5W DH Dlx C2D E6600@3.78GHzair cool CrucialBallistix 2GB PC2-6400 RAM5-5-5-15 Sapphire Radeon X1900GT Mushkin XP650 PSU