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How to receive email in Outlook 2003 with multiple email accounts - one account at a time?

Asked by: stickman57


Using Outlook 2003 with lastest service updates.  Have multiple email accounts. Upon clicking Send/Receive All, Outlook sends/receives new mail from servers simultaneosuly and can bog down or get stuck during the receiving portion. Doesn't seem to be as much of a problem if I use Send/Receive for individual email accounts.

Is there some way that when I choose Send/Receive All that I can have Outlook perform the tasks on one email account before going on to the next account - one at a time instead of simultaneously?

I see that Outlook Express completes the Send/Receive process on one email account before going on to the next.

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2005-11-06 at 13:23:36ID21621209
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Answers

 

by: war1Posted on 2005-11-06 at 13:31:19ID: 15235319

Greetings, stickman57 !

You cannot change the default behavior of Outlook in Send/Receive action.  You can increase the timeout time of each account.  Go the Advanced tab of each account and increase the server timeout time from 1 minute to 5 minutes (or higher).

Best wishes!

 

by: stickman57Posted on 2005-11-07 at 16:38:17ID: 15244245

Thanks for your response.
So, all I can really do is be patient and let the incoming mail crawl in.
It seems weird that I can retrieve the exact same mssgs through Outlook Express, where the default action is one account at a time,
st s faster rate.

 

by: war1Posted on 2005-11-07 at 17:12:29ID: 15244414

Make sure you do not have any email that is stuck in the queque.  The download rate for both Outlook and Outlook Express shoudl be about the same time.  What are the 3 accounts?  Is one with servers in a foreign country?

 

by: stickman57Posted on 2005-11-07 at 22:50:08ID: 15245424

All email is pop3. All isp mail comes from Covad. I am in the San Francisco area.
There are 3 hosted domains - One has 3 addresses. One has 2 addresses. One has 1 address.
In addition there is a covad.net address as well as a local Exchange address that is setup as "domain-name.local".

There are no stuck messages that I can find, by verifying http mail and the server mailbox.
The situation is most prominent when there are many messages to retrieve. Maybe 20 or more, for example.
The hanging seems to be mostly with the covad.net account and one of the hosted account with one address...
though this is not certain.

 

by: war1Posted on 2005-11-10 at 11:27:09ID: 15268383

stickman57, did increasing the timeout times fix the problem?  There should not be any noticable difference in download time between Outlook and Outlook Express.

 

by: stickman57Posted on 2005-11-11 at 20:04:22ID: 15278681

Increasing the timeout seems to have helped.  I suppose the difference in dl times between the two programs is that in OE I can whatch the mail come in by account, which appears to be faster than watching Outlook mail ail come in for all accounts. Thanks for the help.

 

by: war1Posted on 2005-11-11 at 20:18:00ID: 15278709

stickman57, glad you can send with Outlook.

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