@albert wrote:
I've come to the conclusion that Outlook 2010 is not worth fixing as it is no longer supported.
At least for the time being, I'm just going to open a Google account and forward all incoming PlusNet emails to that new address. I don't mind sending emails from it as I'm only using it for friends and family.
If you really mean forwarding and also sending from the Plusnet email address, then you cannot do that.
Plusnet does not offer email forwarding, it offer email redirect addresses, that is it facilitates you@plusnet not being here but being at newyou@somewhereelse - in this "mode" you cannot send emails as you@plusnet via Plusnet's email relay service.
Gmail does have the ability to "harvest" emails using POP3 from other email providers, such as Plusnet. That requires you to also have a Gmail email address and is rather messy unless you understand exactly what your are doing.
There is no good reason why you cannot get Outlook 2010 to work, albeit probably without encryption working. You have not offered any details of your difficulty, so it is not easy to offer help to you, some clues might enable us to get this working for you. You do not indicate if you have problems receiving, sending or both.
OOUTLOOK 2010 is not blighted by the "trying to be helpful" self configuration of the later versions of the product. In simple terms, you need to configure OL2010 as follows, possibly "correcting" some of the assumptions it makes for you - set up a new mailbox as IMAP...
Email address: yourmail@youraccount.plus.com (Note this must be already set up under "Manage my Mail")
Your Name: Albert ...
Incoming (IMAP) server: mail.plus.net port 143 encryption none
User name: youraccount (of if not the primary mailbox youraccount+yourmail )
Password: as appropriate for the above - default mailbox is your Plusnet password - others, the specific email address
Outgoing (SMTP) server: relay.plus.net port 587 encryption none
Username / password as above
The above should work. If when you try to sync (download your emails) you do not get any errors, but you see not emails, then go back into the settings and set the root folder to inbox
When you have this working, you could try enabling encryption.
IMAP needs to use port 993 with SSL/TLS
SMTP still uses 587 with STARTTLS
OL2010 is not the only email client in town, many use thunderbird which is free - most certainly a better option than Gmail, but not as good as OL2010 which has rich support for contact and calendar management.
HTH?
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