Emails not showing up in Inbox

[LKH]

My emails will not show up in my inbox until I press the send/receive button.
How do I get them to show up automatically. I ask for an automatic
send/receive every 2 minutes.

 

[Gordon]

My emails will not show up in my inbox until I press the send/receive
button.
How do I get them to show up automatically. I ask for an automatic
send/receive every 2 minutes.

2 minute interval is way too close. Change it to 10 minutes....

 

[LKH]

I changed the send/receive to 10 minutes and the test email did not show up
after 15 minutes. Any other suggestions?

 

[asf66]

Pardon my intrusion, but why is LKH's send/receive to close? Why isn't is a
good idea to have Outlook ask fot mail at this interval?

Thanks

 

[Gordon]

Pardon my intrusion, but why is LKH's send/receive to close? Why isn't is
a
good idea to have Outlook ask fot mail at this interval?

Because it disrupts the mail server amongst other things, that's why the
default polling interval in Outlook is 10 minutes....

 

[Gordon]

I changed the send/receive to 10 minutes and the test email did not show up
after 15 minutes. Any other suggestions?

When you say "test" email, did you use the Test Account Settings in the
Email Account setup dialog, and if so, were there any errors shown? If you
didn't use that method, then I suggest you do, as it quite often gives the
solution....

 

[LKH]

I sent an email from another computer in our office to see if it would show
up in the inbox. It did not without manually using the send/receive button.
I also did the test in the email set-up program and everything is working
correctly.

 

[asf66]

Thank you.

Because it disrupts the mail server amongst other things, that's why the
default polling interval in Outlook is 10 minutes....

 

[LKH]

I am using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 SP3 with a POP3 account. The
account is set-up to check for new messages every 2 minutes.

 

[Gordon]

I am using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 SP3 with a POP3 account. The
account is set-up to check for new messages every 2 minutes.

Then that's part of the problem. Set it to 10 minutes at least.

 

[LKH]

I tried that and it did not help. I waited 20 minutes and nothing showed up.

 

[Gordon]

I tried that and it did not help. I waited 20 minutes and nothing showed
up.

Does your ISP have a webmail function? If so can you log on and see if your
received messages are on their mail server waiting to be downloaded?

 

[LKH]

The messages are on the server and they come through Outlook OK when I click

 

[NED]

Outlook is pulling my msgs from the server and I don't know where it's
putting them. I read all your msgs below and have done everything, settings
are correct, tests all ran fine.. I have talked with Dell, verizon and
microsoft without any results.
wld appreciate any help