Sequential connections to POP3 servers in Outlook XP?

[Guest]

It seems as if Outlook XP likes (wants) to make concurrent connections to my
POP3 servers rather than (what I assume to be) sequential connections in my
previous Outlook 2000 installation. This is creating problems for some POP3
mail servers I use.

I am repeatedly getting errors regarding connections interrupted, etc..
Other Email clients are not having problems, nor did Outlook 2000, hence my
assumption above.

My question is whether it is possible to set Outlook XP to behave like
Outlook 2000 did, that is, it would poll each server in turn, sending and
receiving in sequential sessions rather than doing things
concurrently/simultaneously.

Thanks in advance for your help and replies ...

Victor Z

 

[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

It seems as if Outlook XP likes (wants) to make concurrent connections to my
POP3 servers rather than (what I assume to be) sequential connections in my
previous Outlook 2000 installation. This is creating problems for some POP3
mail servers I use.

I am repeatedly getting errors regarding connections interrupted, etc..
Other Email clients are not having problems, nor did Outlook 2000, hence my
assumption above.

My question is whether it is possible to set Outlook XP to behave like
Outlook 2000 did, that is, it would poll each server in turn, sending and
receiving in sequential sessions rather than doing things
concurrently/simultaneously.

Thanks in advance for your help and replies ...

Victor Z

Outlook 2002 will always try to make connections for all accounts
simultaneously. Outlook 2003 will also do so, but with the constraint that
it will handle accounts on the same server sequentially, so one possiblity
is to upgrade to 2003.

If your problem is interrupted connections, you might also be getting bit
by Norton anti-virus (if you have it installed). See
http://service1.symantec.com/support/sharedtech.nsf/docid/2002071214223706
if you have it.