Did you create Oulook profile first? http://www.intermedia.net/support/kb/default.asp?id=1303

>I received the following error when attempting what you suggested trying.
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>OLE IDispatch exception code 4096 from Microsoft Outlook: The server is not available. Contact your administrator if this condition persists...
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>The server is available and able to be logged into manually. When you open Outlook it prompts you for a user name, domain, and password. Is the login routine you gave me suffiecient to login to Outlook 2000?