Hiding Authentication popup

[Mark A. Sam]

Hello,

I have several pop3 accounts accessed on a remote server. Whenever the
server is down, the Authentication dialog boxes keep popping up one after
the other causing me to click cancel. Is there a way to hide these?

Thank you and God Bless,

Mark A. Sam

 

[James]

Try clearing this option 'Schedule an automatic send/receive every x
minutes'.

 

[Mark A. Sam]

James,

If I do that, I may forget to start it up again. I want to leave the client
checking mail and report it as an error in the task bar message. Is that
possible?

God Bless,

Mark

 

[James]

I'm not sure if you have selected Save Password checkbox on the
Authentication dialog?If you have,I think the Authentication dialog couldn't
come out.

 

[Mark A. Sam]

I did check SavePassword on all the accounts. In fact when the dialogbox
pops up the password is in the textbox.

 

[James]

Outlook version?any other accounts? your 'remote server' type? how are you
connected to the 'remote server'? Anyway,now I guess you have all of your
POP3 accounts configured with the same server name, user name, and
password,right? In that case,please try and turn on e-mail reception for
only one of the POP3 accounts.

 

[Mark A. Sam]

Outlook version?

Outlook2007, but this was a problem with Outlook2002

any other accounts?

Yes, 4 accounts to this server. They were all exhibiting the same issue.

your 'remote server' type?
Pop3

how are you connected to the 'remote server'?

I don't understand.

Anyway,now I guess you have all of your
POP3 accounts configured with the same server name,

Yes for the accounts that were the problem.

user name,

Different user name for each account

and password,right? In that case,please try and turn on e-mail reception
for
only one of the POP3 accounts.

The problem isn't occuring now that the remote serve is working.

This is something that can either be turned on or off or not, and I suspect
it it is 'not'. I'm pretty sure this yet another design flaw of Microsoft
products. Probably the best thing to do is to find out what Email Client
Bills Gates uses and switch to that.

Don't worry about it. I'll live with it.

God Bless,

Mark

 

[James]

When the server is down,any attempt to access the server produces a logon
error,which I think is interpreted as a bad user account by Outlook 2002 or
later (this is not an issue for me since I'm using Outlook 2000),and thus
you are prompted for the correct user name and password again! To work
around this,File/Work Offline may be a good choice.