Outlook 2003, Send/Receive and Continuing on Error

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A have a group of three POP email accounts and one IMAP account in
Outlook 2003 running off of Exchange 2000. I have email set to
auto-receive every 5 minutes. However, every now and then, one of the
POP accounts will fail to find a its server and the "Enter Network
Password" dialog box will appear. There is nothing wrong with the POP
account or its credentials. Over the course of a day, a mail server can
hiccup and if should hiccup while Outlook does it's check, this can
happen. No big deal, working as designed.

What is a big deal though is, when this does happen - that Outlook
checks an email server it can't find and the Network credntials dialog
will pop up - it will sit on that dialog and not continue to
automatically download any email anymore for any account (other than
the IMAP one) until that dialog is either acknowledged or cancelled. As
this machine running Outlook is a 24/7 unattended "distribution point"
for getting email downloaded and sent out via a Sprint PCS Connection
Client link, it could be many days before it is noticed. Which of
course means that no email is downloaded to that Outlook Inbox from the
POP clients for several days - that dialog box is blocking any other
Outlook tasks from running.

I have been unable to find a setting that tells Outlook to ignore
errors or not found servers and just continue processing its
autodownloads as scheduled. I can't believe Outlook wouldn't have added
this option as no mail server is always available 24/7.

Anyone know of such a setting, registry hack or a way to get around
this problem?
 
The recommended interval for checking multiple accounts is 10 minutes to
allow for download of large files. I would change the settings to at least
15 minutes for automatic polling and see if that helps.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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| A have a group of three POP email accounts and one IMAP account in
| Outlook 2003 running off of Exchange 2000. I have email set to
| auto-receive every 5 minutes. However, every now and then, one of the
| POP accounts will fail to find a its server and the "Enter Network
| Password" dialog box will appear. There is nothing wrong with the POP
| account or its credentials. Over the course of a day, a mail server
| can hiccup and if should hiccup while Outlook does it's check, this
| can happen. No big deal, working as designed.
|
| What is a big deal though is, when this does happen - that Outlook
| checks an email server it can't find and the Network credntials dialog
| will pop up - it will sit on that dialog and not continue to
| automatically download any email anymore for any account (other than
| the IMAP one) until that dialog is either acknowledged or cancelled.
| As this machine running Outlook is a 24/7 unattended "distribution
| point" for getting email downloaded and sent out via a Sprint PCS
| Connection Client link, it could be many days before it is noticed.
| Which of course means that no email is downloaded to that Outlook
| Inbox from the POP clients for several days - that dialog box is
| blocking any other Outlook tasks from running.
|
| I have been unable to find a setting that tells Outlook to ignore
| errors or not found servers and just continue processing its
| autodownloads as scheduled. I can't believe Outlook wouldn't have
| added this option as no mail server is always available 24/7.
|
| Anyone know of such a setting, registry hack or a way to get around
| this problem?
 
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