I get hours of mail all at once on the Exchange system

[ISCtech]

I have an Outlook XP client connecting to MS Exchange Server 2000. Client
OS is XP Pro (SP2). If I just sit and stare at my Outlook I will receive no
e-mails, but if I click on a message to read it, it links up and I get all
the mail since I last had activity in the inbox.

Does that make any sense? It's like it is sycn'ing when I read messages,
but not when I sit idle, which sucks because I do other things in other
programs waiting for a new message to come in.

I've looked in Google and MS KB and TechNet for the answer to this and I've
found absolutely nothing.

Thanks!
JoeDoe

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Yes it does and give
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;839226 a peek since
I suspect the behavior is caused by the Windows Firewall.