preparing to send/receive

[preparing to send/receive]

When i open my outlook to check my e-mail all it says is preparing to
send/receive it will stay like that for hours and hours what could problem.My
other user account i have no problem with my e-mail.

 

[Ed]

I have the same problem.

 

[Gordon]

I have the same problem.

And?

 

[Alvaro]

On 1/20/2009 8:27 PM PST 1/20/2009 8:27 PM PST ruch33 wrote:


Hi! Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

I am using Outlook 2003 and my computer is running Vista.

I am having problems receiving mail via Outlook. It is connected to a pop
account and it worked fine then last night it stopped receiving mail. I
can still send email.
And my email is still going to the server, because I can read it if I connect
to webmail - as well as on my iphone- it just doesn't download to my
Outlook. Other weird things:

1) Now when I press send/receive the button flashes
orange (it is activated), but then nothing pops up, although mail in the
outbox will go.

2) I tested the Outlook settings again, and the test worked fine, including
connecting to the incoming mail server. However, I never receive the test
messages in my Outlook inbox, although they are visible in my webmail inbox.

3) I wanted to make sure that the send/receive groups settings were set to
check often for mail, but if I go into send/receive options and try to click
on "define send/receive groups", it highlights orange (ie it is activated),
but nothing will pop up - I can't get into those settings.

I've read through all the other posts I can find, and tried various things,
such as:
-checking all of the incoming/outgoing settings
-creating a new profile
-turning off the virus checker for email
I have AVG Free virus scanner software on my computer, and I
turned the email scanner part off. No luck.

No luck! any suggestions????

thank you so much for any help you can provide!

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Tonight I wrote:

I have the exact same problem as described by ruch33.

I use Windows XP professional SP3 and Office 2003 SP3.

I have gone as far as reinstalling Windows and Office. I have tried on
somebody else’s computer. I have spent long hours on the phone with the ISP
help desk.

I can send mails, I can see my incoming mail at the ISP site, but Outlook
continues to go through all the motions when I press the Send/Receive button
but no mail is downloaded.

This is most frustrating. I have spent the best part of last week
troubleshooting this problem. This is most frustrating.

I need all the help I can get and will be very, very thankful for any useful
suggestions.

Al

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These problems look similar to yours. And they also tend to indicate a
recently introduced bug.
I feel that Microsoft should look into this bad issue.

 

[Bobby Gene]

I think more people are having this problem than want to admit it. And if you
try uninstall/reinstall, you lose everything. I had this problem in the past
with the previous version of the Outlook Connector, and did away with the
Connector. Then, Microsoft came up with the current version which seemed to
fix the problem, until recently. I am, once again, looking for the fix to
this problem also. Maybe it's some kind of bug somebody is throwing in. I do
notice most of the time, I do send and receive my messages during the
"process", but you aren't sure until you look in the individual email
programs. Example: I send something out using MSN, it doesn't show going out
of my "outbox" yet; but when I open MSN, I've already got replies to the
outgoing message (meaning it had gone out). Then, going back to my Outlook,
it still shows sending the message.