GMail IMAP Offline 50% of the time

[Dennis]

Hello,

I am using outlook trial and considering buying it, but there is an issue, that is driving me nuts.

I have a Gmail account and the emails there were accumulating for years and now there are over 1.6GB of email. I am guessing it is too much for outlook and sometimes it just breaks when syncing my gmail account. Basically the status starts saying offline and I can no longer even view my other accounts due to the offline message. Needles to say this is crazy. Does anyone know how to fix this issue. I got a WM phone and I really need outlook to sync stuff to my computer.

Thanks

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am using outlook trial and considering buying it, but there is an
issue, that is driving me nuts.

Is that trial Outlook 2007?

I have a Gmail account and the emails there were accumulating for
years and now there are over 1.6GB of email. I am guessing it is too
much for outlook and sometimes it just breaks when syncing my gmail
account. Basically the status starts saying offline and I can no
longer even view my other accounts due to the offline message.
Needles to say this is crazy. Does anyone know how to fix this issue.
I got a WM phone and I really need outlook to sync stuff to my
computer.

Outlook's IMAP handling has always been, in my opinion, subpar. However,
you can't sync with an IMAP account so you'd have to copy the data from
gmail to local folders that are set as your delivery location.

 

[Dennis]

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I am using office small business trial, as I would like to get it for my small company.

So basically what I need to do is subscribe to all the folders in an IMAP account and let them download till completion and I should be ok? Is there by any chance an option to increase the number of simultaneous imap connections (like in thunderbird), I am guessing there is a lesser chance multiple connections fille close at the same time and outlook will not think it is offline?

 

[Brian Tillman]

So basically what I need to do is subscribe to all the folders in an
IMAP account and let them download till completion and I should be
ok?

Sorry, but I don't quite see how this relates to my reply. Perhaps youi're
replying in the newsgroup to a private message you received. Next time,
please quote the relevant portions of the message to which you're replying.

Is there by any chance an option to increase the number of
simultaneous imap connections (like in thunderbird), I am guessing
there is a lesser chance multiple connections fille close at the same
time and outlook will not think it is offline?

I don't know of any way to change the number of simultaneous connections
only for IMAP. The only values controlling that of which I'm aware are for
the network stack in general and in Windows XP, the value is high enough
that it shouldn't be affecting IMAP.