Outlook 2003 Timeout

[Brian H]

Outlook 2003 CONTINUALLY times out on my pop3 accounts, yet, other email
clients have no problems connecting at all.

Further, every time I try to set the timeout time to say 10 seconds, when I
close outlook and re-open, the timeout is back to 1 minute. This is
annoying.

Is this a known bug?

Brian

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

And why are you setting the timeout so low? If you are having problems
keeping your POP3 connection active, you should be INCREASING the timeout,
not decreasing it. What happens if you increase it to 5 minutes? Do you
get all of your mail?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Brian H asked:

| Outlook 2003 CONTINUALLY times out on my pop3 accounts, yet, other
| email clients have no problems connecting at all.
|
| Further, every time I try to set the timeout time to say 10 seconds,
| when I close outlook and re-open, the timeout is back to 1 minute.
| This is annoying.
|
| Is this a known bug?
|
| Brian

 

[Brian H]

Outlook should retain my settings regardless, but no, I don't get the mail
after a few minutes. I set the timeouts that low so instead of opening the
details, hitting "cancel all", then hitting send receive again, I can simply
wait the few seconds and hit send/receive. It eliminates me constantly
hitting cancel. Because if the first events haven't finished yet, hitting
send/receive only enqueue's the commands so it doesn't really help and I
don't want to wait 10 minutes to get my mail.

When it _does_ work, I can see it download my mail almost instantaneously.
So it's not really a _timeout_ -- I've got different email clients, I've
pinged/tracerouted my way to the mail servers, and there's no connection
issue -- only Outlook thinks so.

This happens over a T3 as well as dialup.

Brian