I have a user running Office 2010 under Win 7. All was working fine until I joined the PC to a Win 2008 (Small Business) Server domain. Now the download of mails takes forever.
I mean that literally – forever. The user has 2 mail addresses, and one of them has about 400 mails in it. Every time you restart the computer, or Outlook, it starts downloading from no 1 again – and days later, on no 85 or so, when it hasn’t finished, something else goes wrong and the machine has to be restarted – meaning download starts from scratch. Again.
Command line (telnet pop3.{} / user {} / pass {} / list / retr 1 / retr 2 etc works *just fine*. Windows Live Essentials mail client set up with exactly the same account details works *just fine*.
I uninstalled the whole of Office using the Microsoft recommended method for complete removal (which, btw, didn’t remove all the settings – when I reinstalled, Outlook still was looking for the same PST files as before). Reinstalled and downloaded all the updates again. Same again.
Makes no difference if I deactivate antivirus and / or firewall (AVG Internet Security Business Edition 2012).
Makes no difference if I log on back into the non-domain Outlook profile either (i.e. log off the computer and log on as the local PC user).
What can be wrong with Outlook / Outlook’s settings? This PC is only 6 months old, I don’t really want to reinstall Windows just yet!