Re: Emails get stuck... Need to pull to get them!

From: Sam (sam_at_globalwebcentral.com)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:04:06 -0500

Hi,

My answer is yes to your questions about firewall, switch w/ VLANs... My
built-in XP firewall was on too (I don't know why).. Do you think that could
be the reason?

Sam

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Sam wrote:
>> As weird as it sounds, this is a problem that manifested itself in
>> the last 3-4 months. I connect to Exchange 2000 through Outlook 2002
>> in our corporate network which is 100 Mbps network.
>>
>> When an email arrives in my email account it should just pop up in my
>> Inbox. I have to switch between Inbox and Calendar or Tasks or
>> Contacts, etc. to pull my emails. When I switch back and forth, my
>> emails pop up in my Inbox.
>>
>> If I'm in a meeting, I'm away from my computer for a while. When I
>> check my Inbox, I see nothing. I do the trick and all of a sudden,
>> they pop up in my Inbox. It's like they get stuck in the pipe. This
>> could be more of an Outlook issue than an Exchange one. Has anyone
>> experience anything like this? If so, what do I need to do to fix it
>> so my computer will behave the way it used to.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Sam
>
> It's not Outlook, it's not Exchange - it's Windows or networking, most
> likely. Do you have a firewall installed/configured on your workstation?
> Or
> are you on a switch with VLANs? Or behind any hardware firewall? Exchange
> is
> trying to send the UDP packets to your computer to notify it of new
> messages, & the traffic is getting blocked for some reason.
>
>

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