HTTP mail timing out with OL (XP)

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Martin

Hello all you hopefully helpful OL gurus!
I have been successfully running multiple POP3 accts with
OL for years now, but have to smoothly access my hotmail
accounts. I continually get server timeouts, no matter
what settings I use - download descriptions only, backing
off on the number of folders, etc. Outlook tells me to
search for [HTTP Mail troubleshooting] in help, but there
is nothing there specific to http mail. In fact the only
thing I found is that server timeouts are NOT adjustable
for http. I even tried removing my http accts from the
regular send / receive groups, then manually doing a
send / receive via Shift-F9 from their respective
folders...I still get timeout errors.
Interestingly, if memory serves, OL express was better at
http mail than the full OL, but I really don't want to
run two mail clients.
Can anyone help me overcome my timeout / resource not
found / no response from server etc etc problems with
http mail accounts in OL2k2 please!
Thanks in advance,
(e-mail address removed)
 
Outlook 2002 only officially supports one Hotmail account. If you have more
than one defined and working, then you are in the tiny minority who do.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding not answer:
Martin <[email protected]> asked:
| Hello all you hopefully helpful OL gurus!
| I have been successfully running multiple POP3 accts with
| OL for years now, but have to smoothly access my hotmail
| accounts. I continually get server timeouts, no matter
| what settings I use - download descriptions only, backing
| off on the number of folders, etc. Outlook tells me to
| search for [HTTP Mail troubleshooting] in help, but there
| is nothing there specific to http mail. In fact the only
| thing I found is that server timeouts are NOT adjustable
| for http. I even tried removing my http accts from the
| regular send / receive groups, then manually doing a
| send / receive via Shift-F9 from their respective
| folders...I still get timeout errors.
| Interestingly, if memory serves, OL express was better at
| http mail than the full OL, but I really don't want to
| run two mail clients.
| Can anyone help me overcome my timeout / resource not
| found / no response from server etc etc problems with
| http mail accounts in OL2k2 please!
| Thanks in advance,
| (e-mail address removed)
 
Hi,

I must say that I'm having the same problem, but it only
seems to be if I am trying to use OL to access more than
one hotmail account. Outlook express can do this fine,
but like yourself, I don't want to use 2 mail clients and
would prefer to use outlook. What I do know is that the
hotmail access in outlook express is only supportted due
to some sort of patch that was added and was never
progressed past a beta testing stage.

Sorry its not much help
 
Well, I'm having the same exact problem. Martin, did you have this problem from the beginning, or did it just crop up in the last month or two? My HTTP account never used to time out using Outlook...until about a month ago. Now it times out all the time, and usually happens when trying to download files larger than about 70 KB. Have you noticed that it times out more frequently when a larger file is downloading? That's my experience. Wish I had more answers than questions.
 
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