Large numbers of messages

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Terry Bennett

I have problems when I'm away from my PC for a day or more.

Today I have logged-on after 36 hours and have 300+ messages with
attachments (photos) amounting to £100Mb+

I find that Outlook cannot cope with this and after about 150 messages gives
uo and starts again. Hence I have numerous copies of the earlier messages
but no way of accessing the latter ones.

Any ideas?

If I just want to delete eveything that's in my mailbox how do I do that as,
without having completed the synchronisation, it remains there.

Thanks.
 
Increase your server timeout to at least 15 minutes. This is often the problem when you are receiving multiple copies of large emails.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Terry Bennett asked:

| I have problems when I'm away from my PC for a day or more.
|
| Today I have logged-on after 36 hours and have 300+ messages with
| attachments (photos) amounting to £100Mb+
|
| I find that Outlook cannot cope with this and after about 150
| messages gives uo and starts again. Hence I have numerous copies of
| the earlier messages but no way of accessing the latter ones.
|
| Any ideas?
|
| If I just want to delete eveything that's in my mailbox how do I do
| that as, without having completed the synchronisation, it remains
| there.
|
| Thanks.
 
Thanks Milly ........ how do I do that?!


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
Increase your server timeout to at least 15 minutes. This is often the
problem when you are receiving multiple copies of large emails.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Terry Bennett asked:

| I have problems when I'm away from my PC for a day or more.
|
| Today I have logged-on after 36 hours and have 300+ messages with
| attachments (photos) amounting to £100Mb+
|
| I find that Outlook cannot cope with this and after about 150
| messages gives uo and starts again. Hence I have numerous copies of
| the earlier messages but no way of accessing the latter ones.
|
| Any ideas?
|
| If I just want to delete eveything that's in my mailbox how do I do
| that as, without having completed the synchronisation, it remains
| there.
|
| Thanks.
 
In the send/receive dialogue and also in your account properties. If you want to share your version of Outlook, I can be more specific.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Terry Bennett asked:

| Thanks Milly ........ how do I do that?!
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| | Increase your server timeout to at least 15 minutes. This is often
| the problem when you are receiving multiple copies of large emails.
|
| --
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
| reading.
|
| After furious head scratching, Terry Bennett asked:
|
|| I have problems when I'm away from my PC for a day or more.
||
|| Today I have logged-on after 36 hours and have 300+ messages with
|| attachments (photos) amounting to £100Mb+
||
|| I find that Outlook cannot cope with this and after about 150
|| messages gives uo and starts again. Hence I have numerous copies of
|| the earlier messages but no way of accessing the latter ones.
||
|| Any ideas?
||
|| If I just want to delete eveything that's in my mailbox how do I do
|| that as, without having completed the synchronisation, it remains
|| there.
||
|| Thanks.
 
Thanks Milly. It's Outlook 2003 SP2. I have found a timeout setting in
Accounts Properties - seems to be set to 1 minute and only goes up to 10
minutes?


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
In the send/receive dialogue and also in your account properties. If you
want to share your version of Outlook, I can be more specific.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Terry Bennett asked:

| Thanks Milly ........ how do I do that?!
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| | Increase your server timeout to at least 15 minutes. This is often
| the problem when you are receiving multiple copies of large emails.
|
| --
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
| reading.
|
| After furious head scratching, Terry Bennett asked:
|
|| I have problems when I'm away from my PC for a day or more.
||
|| Today I have logged-on after 36 hours and have 300+ messages with
|| attachments (photos) amounting to £100Mb+
||
|| I find that Outlook cannot cope with this and after about 150
|| messages gives uo and starts again. Hence I have numerous copies of
|| the earlier messages but no way of accessing the latter ones.
||
|| Any ideas?
||
|| If I just want to delete eveything that's in my mailbox how do I do
|| that as, without having completed the synchronisation, it remains
|| there.
||
|| Thanks.
 
Set that at 10 minutes and set your send/receive to be no less than 15 minutes. If you have a dialup connection, downloading a multi-megabyte file will take time - settings less than what are recommended can "step" on the download and cause it to reload.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Terry Bennett asked:

| Thanks Milly. It's Outlook 2003 SP2. I have found a timeout setting
| in Accounts Properties - seems to be set to 1 minute and only goes up
| to 10 minutes?
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| | In the send/receive dialogue and also in your account properties. If
| you want to share your version of Outlook, I can be more specific.
|
| --
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
| reading.
|
| After furious head scratching, Terry Bennett asked:
|
|| Thanks Milly ........ how do I do that?!
||
||
|| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
|| || Increase your server timeout to at least 15 minutes. This is often
|| the problem when you are receiving multiple copies of large emails.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Terry Bennett asked:
||
||| I have problems when I'm away from my PC for a day or more.
|||
||| Today I have logged-on after 36 hours and have 300+ messages with
||| attachments (photos) amounting to £100Mb+
|||
||| I find that Outlook cannot cope with this and after about 150
||| messages gives uo and starts again. Hence I have numerous copies of
||| the earlier messages but no way of accessing the latter ones.
|||
||| Any ideas?
|||
||| If I just want to delete eveything that's in my mailbox how do I do
||| that as, without having completed the synchronisation, it remains
||| there.
|||
||| Thanks.
 
Thanks for your help Milly


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
Set that at 10 minutes and set your send/receive to be no less than 15
minutes. If you have a dialup connection, downloading a multi-megabyte file
will take time - settings less than what are recommended can "step" on the
download and cause it to reload.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Terry Bennett asked:

| Thanks Milly. It's Outlook 2003 SP2. I have found a timeout setting
| in Accounts Properties - seems to be set to 1 minute and only goes up
| to 10 minutes?
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| | In the send/receive dialogue and also in your account properties. If
| you want to share your version of Outlook, I can be more specific.
|
| --
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
| reading.
|
| After furious head scratching, Terry Bennett asked:
|
|| Thanks Milly ........ how do I do that?!
||
||
|| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
|| || Increase your server timeout to at least 15 minutes. This is often
|| the problem when you are receiving multiple copies of large emails.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Terry Bennett asked:
||
||| I have problems when I'm away from my PC for a day or more.
|||
||| Today I have logged-on after 36 hours and have 300+ messages with
||| attachments (photos) amounting to £100Mb+
|||
||| I find that Outlook cannot cope with this and after about 150
||| messages gives uo and starts again. Hence I have numerous copies of
||| the earlier messages but no way of accessing the latter ones.
|||
||| Any ideas?
|||
||| If I just want to delete eveything that's in my mailbox how do I do
||| that as, without having completed the synchronisation, it remains
||| there.
|||
||| Thanks.
 
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