Timeout

[Brian H]

Hi Milly and others -- is there any resolution to this? Thx, Brian
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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

 

[Meg Geddes]

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.

Are you running Norton or some kind of a virus checker? I notice this
behavior with a couple of my POP accounts that get a lot of spam and
viruses. If you go in and look at the message once it arrives (in vi or some
kind of a text editor) you can see a bunch of TIMEOUT statements from Norton
appended to the header. Meanwhile, it'll take 4 or 4 minutes to arrive
(from a machine on the LAN that's sitting right next to me, and the message
is only maybe 200K)

Meg

 

[Brian H]

Hi Meg,

Thanks for the suggestion!

I do have McAfee VirusScan -- but I have disabled both email and real-time
schemes. I'll try disabling it altogether to see if that helps. The weird
part is that it seems sporadic. So I may launch Outlook and it may have no
problems connecting. Launch again, perhaps no problems.

But one thing is consistent: if I can connect once, as long as I leave
outlook open, I have no problems connecting again. It's only that initial
connection after loading Outlook that gives me headaches...

Brian