Send/Receive not working periodically

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I have Outlook 2003 installed on a P4M-2.0GHz, 512M RAM, 40G HD (7G free),
WinXP SP1. I am running three email accounts with Outlook. I have been
using all accounts with Outlook for years without problems (on Outlook XP).

Recently, I started having an unusual problem... the problem started with
Outlook XP and has migrated with upgrade to Outlook 2003. Periodically and
without warning, when Outlook goes to do its normally scheduled
send/receive, it starts at 0% down a the status bar (bottom right) as it
should then climbs a bit, but eventually begins to fall. It never gets back
to zero. In clicking "details" for this, it appears that the number of
actions continues to climb at a rate greater than the tasks completed (i.e.
"876 of 1264 tasks complete"). I originally thought this was caused by the
installation of McAfee Spamkiller 5.0 (which totally sucks by the way), but
have since removed the offensive useless software, including the manual
removal of all mentions of 'mcafee' in the registry. And, no, I'm not a
complete idiot who mucked up his registry while cleaning - I really do know
what I'm doing and didn't delete something important.

Anyway, the point is that this issue has me completely befuddled. Any help
out there?

Please respond to group and/or to qnman at hotmail, subject "NEWS RESPONSE"
in all caps.

Thanks,
QN
 
Is one of your accounts with an exchange server?

I have seen something like that when syncing an "offline folder file" with
exchange server, if you are on a laptop computer, you may need this, but if
you are on a desktop computer, you may want to turn off this option if it is
indeed the cause. I watched it climb up to about 20 tasks, but did
eventually complete them.

In Outlook 2002 you can find the settings under Tools>E-mail Accounts>view
or change exsisting e-mail accounts>select the exchange server>Change>More
Setings>Advanced tab>Offline Folder File Settings>Disable Offline Use

Hope this helps
 
Nope, no exchange server, BUT - I AM using synchronization because this is a
laptop. AND I'm using Microsoft Mail (I know, I know, it's not supported
anymore, but it works and is a lot cheaper than exchange - my bosses are a
little on the cheap side and won't spring for exchange).

Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a setting for synchronization for
just MS Mail, so I will try disabling synch altogether over the course of a
few days. Also unfortunate that this problem, as mentioned before, is
intermittent; since I cannot go without synch for too long (being a laptop),
I can't be positive that this will solve my problem, but it's worth a try.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
QN
 
I'd start by creating different a Send/Receive group for each account and
then run each one in succession to see which causes the problem.
 
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