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Outlook 2003 is hanging occassionally when receving email. It continuosly says 'receiving 1 of ....(e.g 10)' and remains like that until it is timed out. This error only occurs on POP3 accounts only. I am running exchange 2000.
How can I resolve this?
by ruzengweg Accepted solution
by thumbsup2 Accepted solution
If it's timing out when receiving from a POP3 account, there may be an email stuck. If you have webmail access to that POP3 account, try going in that way and deleting the oldest email, then try again. You might also try calling the ISP to see if they can kick that one email out for you.
Of course, there are other things that affect POP3 email accounts such as the reliability of the communication line between you and the POP3 server or the time of day (is it peak rush hour?). And, it could be on their end as well. Maybe their server is occationally "busy". If the mail eventually comes in, chances are this is the problem.
Occational problems are difficult to track down. Sometimes it's a simple matter of having to wait it out.
by computercookie Accepted solution
Tools > E-mail Accounts;
View or change existing e-mail accounts, Next, click on the POP3 account, click on Change, click on More Settings, click on the advanced tab, slide the "Server Timeouts" to long - 10 minutes and see if that helps.
If you're collecting mail from multiple accounts the accounts below the first one (which seems to be randomn) will time out if the first account has multiple messages as by default the time is set to one minute.
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