Can I remove the IMAP server timeout warning from Outlook

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Michael J Dalby

Can I remove the IMAP server timeout warning from Outlook?
- not just extend the timeout period since I want the
outlook program to remain open all the time and an auto
login and check for new mail say every 30 mins or so. -- Help!
 
Michael J Dalby said:
Can I remove the IMAP server timeout warning from Outlook?
- not just extend the timeout period since I want the
outlook program to remain open all the time and an auto
login and check for new mail say every 30 mins or so. -- Help!
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I too am interested in this. Googled about it in the past, never managed to
find anything that worked for me. I'm using Courier IMAP server.

It's a really annoying bug. Sometimes on my PC, it freezes the taskbar along
with the loss of several items on it, making you think they've
crashed/closed until you close this damn "error" message. Can't even move
the mouse into the taskbar area of the display. Alt-tab is OK however.

Fraser.
 
In Outlook 2003 this should now just pop up as a non-blocking information
bubble, rather than a blocking dialog. In both Outlook 2002 and 2000, it is
a blocking dialog.
 
Jeff Stephenson said:
In Outlook 2003 this should now just pop up as a non-blocking information
bubble, rather than a blocking dialog. In both Outlook 2002 and 2000, it is
a blocking dialog.
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Blocking? You mean modal?

Anyway, shouldn't the fix be to solve the problem in the first place, not
make it less annoying? If you insist on informing the user of this, then why
not have it as text in the status area in the bottom right of the screen? A
popup for this is just silly. It happens a lot every day. People have
complained about having to close hundreds of them after leaving Outlook
running overnight.

We aren't the only ones with it. Try googling usenet for the error message.

http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?h...r+has+closed+the+connection&sa=N&tab=wg&meta=

1400+ topics returned

Or the web:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...+server+has+closed+the+connection&sa=N&tab=gw

35,000+ pages returned

YMMV, Google's funny that way...

Just think how many people this is annoying that haven't posted about it. I
didn't post until I randomly saw this thread.

Technically, it seems as though Outlook is opening multiple connections to
the server, and getting a file-locking error. There is no need for one
client to do this, and I 100% certain that I am the only client, being on a
closed network.

F.
 
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