I guess no one else cares about this?

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Sammye

New computer. Microsoft XP Home. Microsoft Office XP
Small Business 2002. Earthlink dial-up account. Two e-
mail accounts. After opening Outlook, 1st send/receive
(option 3, all accounts) usually prompts for both
passwords, downloads messages, all good. Next time,
though, no prompt for account 2, error cannot connect to
server, account 1 usually gets messages. Every five
minute send/receive option eventually degenerates to
cannot connect to server errors for both accounts.
Meanwhile internet browsing slows to a crawl. Must
restart computer to restore browsing capability. Any
ideas?

(Below is a record of previous thread I thought might
apply. S.)
This is very similar to my send/receive problems. I am
sad to note no "MVP's" have weighed in on this issue. I
have Earthlink. Chat line referred me to
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/pfdocs/
2002010712042239 . Followed rec's. perhaps a little
better IE performance, but still horrible Outlook
problems. Sure doesn' make me want to upgrade . . .
-----Original Message-----
This happened to me as well and I can't seem to figure out
why this is happening. Perhaps call Adelphia and report
the problem. I think I am going to.
We checked the settings and even went to Adelphia's
website to get the settings. Still doesn't work.
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JUst a suggestion: why dont you delet all of your email accounts an
reconfigure. I have found in the past that some connection issues an
continued requests for passwords are due to something not setu
properly. Make sure all of your mail servers, in and out, ar
correct.

Also, the ISP that you are signed on to, is your outgoing for al
accounts.

Just some thoughts
 
Well, I would start by using only one account on
automatic. Uncheck the other two accounts. You can
check the box when you really want to download the other
two emails. This way you can eliminate weather multi
emails is really causing the problem.

Earthlink is a dial-up, so slow browse says to me that
the phone line is variable. I have cable and download 4
emails for our company. Never a problem unless the email
host server goes down. We have our email hosted by third
party.

Keep a pad and mark the connect speeds for the next 12
tries. Bet they vary.

Thom
 
I could re-enter these, but I verified with my ISP for the
server settings. Even though these accounts are both on
the same ISP account, the servers are unique. Also, wrong
entries wouldn't explain why the messages all download on
the first try, but then quit.
Even though I have dialup, if I refrain from opening
Outlook, browsing continues at the acceptable rate I
enjoyed with Windows 98 & Outlook Express. (Latter worked
fine, btw, with rules for downloading 2nd account into
separate folder.)
 
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