limit on number of accounts in outlook?

[Jothee]

Hi - new here. I can usually figure stuff out myself but this one has
really got me stumped.

I have multiple email accounts on my own domains and multiple email
accounts with my ISP. Outlook will retrieve mail for as many ISP
accounts as I wish to setup. But Outlook chokes when I have more than
four email accounts from my domains set up. I get a send receive error
even though when I test the account in the account setup dialog,
everything works fine. I have set up my domain email accounts in two
other email apps and have no problem sending and receiving from them. I
have even imported the accounts from the apps they are working in to
Outlook but they still won't work.

I contacted domain host and tehy said it's a problem with Outlook and go
pound sand.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Ensure your automatic polling interval is set to no less than 10 minutes.
20 minutes or more would be better with multiple accounts. Otherwise, the
send/receive settings step on each other when checking for mail, causing the
failures.

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After furious head-scratching, Jothee asked this group:

| Hi - new here. I can usually figure stuff out myself but this one has
| really got me stumped.
|
| I have multiple email accounts on my own domains and multiple email
| accounts with my ISP. Outlook will retrieve mail for as many ISP
| accounts as I wish to setup. But Outlook chokes when I have more than
| four email accounts from my domains set up. I get a send receive error
| even though when I test the account in the account setup dialog,
| everything works fine. I have set up my domain email accounts in two
| other email apps and have no problem sending and receiving from them.
| I have even imported the accounts from the apps they are working in to
| Outlook but they still won't work.
|
| I contacted domain host and tehy said it's a problem with Outlook and
| go pound sand.
|
| Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Jothee]

Ensure your automatic polling interval is set to no less than 10 minutes.
20 minutes or more would be better with multiple accounts. Otherwise, the
send/receive settings step on each other when checking for mail, causing the
failures.

Hi Milly,
Thanks. But that didn't work.
When I use Thunderbird email app I poll every 5 minutes and have no
problem. I only have this problem with outlook. Any other things I
should look at?