POP Email hangs up entire email downloads - HELP!

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Hello -

I have a nagging problem in Outlook 2002 --- I have about 10 email accounts
that it checks at different intervals. If one account is having problems
getting to a POP server (regardless of timeout settings, etc), it will stall
usually with an Enter Network Password box -- this will 'freeze' the other
email accounts from downloading until a human clicks OK on the Password box.
Basically, the password is stored and is correct; my ISP tells me that they
are experiencing virus problems on their email servers which are causing
havoc and slowing down email retrieval --- I can deal with that -- but, I
hate the way Outlook is just stuck and doesnt continue to process the other
email accounts. I even made different Send/Recieve groups for the different
email servers -- but, it will still occassionally hang on this one
problematic email server. I cant find any settings that let Outlook go
beyond this -- and setting a huge timeout makes no difference to this
problem. Other than this, this Outlook has been good to me -- but, this
makes things difficult if I leave my cable connection open and hoping to
pull email every minute -- if I step out of the office for a few hours and
it hangs on one of these prompts it holds everything up -- including some
special routing rules I have in place.

Anyone with any ideas?
 
Unfortunately, it's how Outlook does it. I would put the problem account in
it's own SR group and set it for a long time between checks, then do manual
checks every now and again - or even disable checking it automatically until
the ISP is reliable.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)


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Hello -

Thanks for the response. I did put it into its own Send/Receive group --
but, it still seems as tho it hangs all the other independent email accounts
up. I thought it would solve the problem; but it seems to still keep the
rest from downloading.

Any other ideas??? This really holds my email and rules up ...

Chris



Diane Poremsky said:
Unfortunately, it's how Outlook does it. I would put the problem account in
it's own SR group and set it for a long time between checks, then do manual
checks every now and again - or even disable checking it automatically until
the ISP is reliable.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)


Search for answers: http://groups.google.com
Most recent posts to the Outlook newsgroups:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_ugroup=microsoft.public.outlook.*&num=30

christopher said:
Hello -

I have a nagging problem in Outlook 2002 --- I have about 10 email
accounts
that it checks at different intervals. If one account is having problems
getting to a POP server (regardless of timeout settings, etc), it will
stall
usually with an Enter Network Password box -- this will 'freeze' the other
email accounts from downloading until a human clicks OK on the Password
box.
Basically, the password is stored and is correct; my ISP tells me that
they
are experiencing virus problems on their email servers which are causing
havoc and slowing down email retrieval --- I can deal with that -- but, I
hate the way Outlook is just stuck and doesnt continue to process the
other
email accounts. I even made different Send/Recieve groups for the
different
email servers -- but, it will still occassionally hang on this one
problematic email server. I cant find any settings that let Outlook go
beyond this -- and setting a huge timeout makes no difference to this
problem. Other than this, this Outlook has been good to me -- but, this
makes things difficult if I leave my cable connection open and hoping to
pull email every minute -- if I step out of the office for a few hours and
it hangs on one of these prompts it holds everything up -- including some
special routing rules I have in place.

Anyone with any ideas?
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