Outlook 2003 hangs during receive

[bobosola]

Hi folks,

After an HD crash and subsequent fresh rebuild of Win XP and Office 2003
(both fully patched), I have found OL hangs every now again during a
receive. The message is "Receiving 45B of 180KB" or similar. OL just sits
there forever until timeout. I never had this issue on the old system;
it's only since the rebuild a week or so back. I have tried removing my
AV (first McAffe, then NOD32) and my spam filter (K9) but still no joy. I
also tried deleting and recreating my profile. Messenger integration and
the internal OL spam filter are both turned off. I have found that during
a hang, I can visit my ISP via a web interface, delete the offending mail
and then OL works fine again on the next receive. The emails that OL
hangs on have an attachment, usually a virus.

I googled for this issue and found that it seems to be a relatively
common occurrence, but I've not seen a definitive fix yet. Could it be
some sort of conflict between emails with disallowed file attachments
(.PIF etc common to many viruses) and rules which move or delete spam?
I'd be very grateful if anyone could shed any light. Thank you.

 

[NFH]

I've been having this same problem for a while. I've had
it from several providers as well, though others with the
same software (OL2000) have not experienced it. Wish
someone could find the solution.

 

[PT]

If you are using Outlook 2003, try adjusting the Spam
filter settings. They were causing me grief at one point.

 

[Joe]

I recently started to experience the same behavior where
Outlook 2003 simply hangs during the send/receive
process. (E.g. Send receive progress 33%).

If I hit the cancel button it seems to cancel the task
but when I subsequently try to exit Outlook, it stops
responding and I have to kill the process.

Has anyone else seen this?

Thanks,
Joe