When faced with email issues, you have to talk to your ISP about what's up.
Your post conflicts with itself because you wrote "can't even see the button for sent/receive and in xp when i click on s/r..." Or it's unclear how you clicked on send receive without seeing it.
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Bob
hi all i have ibm 600x laptop (Plll 650mhz 327mb ram) and i connot download my emails of my server in either outlook 2003 or xp everything works right when i test account setting in outlook but i when i open the main oulook page in 2003 i can't even see the button for sent/receive and in xp when i click on s/r i get the massage "operation failed"
BTW i only have one version installed now when xp didn't work i upgraded to 2003

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