Re: Outlook Email

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:08:20 -0700

I think I'm looking for a different outcome. If I use #2
and set a specific number of minutes, will emails open
automatically when I go to Outlook? That's what it used
to do. I opened Outlook and the emails showed up right
away. I don't want to wait for them. Is there a setting
for that?

Ann

>-----Original Message-----
>Okay, I know that you know this, but what does "2.
Schedule an automatic
>send/receive every ____ minutes" mean to you? To me, it
means you can set
>an INTERVAL for Outlook to send/receive - as in every 10
minutes.
>
>--
>Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>
>Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion
intact. Due to
>the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent
to my personal
>account will be deleted without reading.
>
>After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer,
>anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com asked:
>
>| Maybe we are looking at different versions of Microsoft
>| Outlook. I have Outlook 2002. I went to Define
>| Send/Receive Groups, but there is nothing there about
>| intervals. I get to mark a box for Online and Offline.
>| My choices for when Outlook is online are 1.Include this
>| group in send/receive (F9) 2. Schedule an automatic
>| send/receive every ____ minutes. 3. Perform an automatic
>| send/receive when exiting. My choices for when Outlook
is
>| offline are 1. Include this group in send/receive (F9).
>| 2. Schedule and automatic send/receive every
____minutes.
>| For both online and offline I have chosen #1.
>|
>| When I open Outlook no new emails appear. When I hit
the
>| F9 key, they appear. I have found that sometimes after
I
>| hit the F9 key and the new emails appear I do get an
error
>| message. Here it is:
>|
>| Task 'mail.comcast.net - Sending' reported error
>| (0x8004210B) : 'The operation timed out waiting for a
>| response from the sending (SMTP) server. If you continue
>| to receive this message, contact your server
administrator
>| or Internet service provider (ISP).'
>|
>| I don't understand the error because I get all the new
>| emails.
>|
>| I still think the new emails should appear when I open
>| Outlook.
>|
>| Ann
>|| -----Original Message-----
>|| Tools->Send/Receive->Send/Receive Settings->Define
Send/Receive
>|| Groups.
>||
>|| --
>|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>||
>|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion
intact. Due to
>|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail
sent to my
>|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
>||
>|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no
answer,
>|| anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com asked:
>||
>||| Can you tell me specifically where to set an interval?
>||| Nowhere in the send/receive settings do I see the word
>||| interval.
>|||
>||| Ann
>|||| -----Original Message-----
>|||| If you define a send/receive INTERVAL, you will get
an automatic
>|||| polling when you open Outlook.
>||||
>|||| --
>|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>||||
>|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion
intact. Due
>|||| to the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all
mail sent to my
>|||| personal account will be deleted without reading.
>||||
>|||| After searching google.groups.com and finding no
answer,
>|||| anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com asked:
>||||
>||||| I had never been to Tools->Send/Receive Settings on
>||||| Outlook before. Again, all the settings look
>||||| correct. "Include this group in send/receive (F9)"
is
>||||| checked for both online and offline. That appears
to be
>||||| the automatic setting. Because I had never seen a
>||||| reference to F9 before, I tried hitting the F9 key
and all
>||||| the emails came into Outlook. But they still won't
do it
>||||| automatically when I open Outlook. The F9 key
gives me
>||||| the ability to get the emails, but I still think it
should
>||||| be automatic. (So I feel like I'm making some
progress
>||||| with your help!)
>|||||
>|||||
>||||| As to your question about testing the settings.
Yes, I
>||||| have and they always test fine. I have never
gotten an
>||||| error message.
>|||||
>||||| Ann
>|||||
>|||||| -----Original Message-----
>|||||| 1. Comcast runs your mail server. Outlook is the
client.
>|||||| 2. You will need to set a defined send/receive
interval for
>|||||| Outlook to automatically collect mail on startup.
Tools-
>|||||| Send/Receive->Send/Receive
>|||||| Settings. Set your polling time from there. It
will force
>|||||| collection when you open.
>|||||| 3. Set your mail to send automatically when
collected. It is in
>|||||| the same dialog as above.
>||||||
>|||||| Did you ever test your settings when you stopped
getting mail?
>|||||| What error message did you get there?
>||||||
>||||||
>|||||| --
>|||||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>||||||
>|||||| Post all replies to the group to keep the
discussion intact. Due
>|||||| to the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all
mail sent to my
>|||||| personal account will be deleted without reading.
>||||||
>|||||| After searching google.groups.com and finding no
answer,
>|||||| anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com asked:
>||||||
>||||||| I don't get an error message. I currently use
Comcast and
>||||||| have Microsoft Outlook as my mail server. When I
open
>||||||| Outlook, all my emails should automatically open
in
>||||||| Outlook. They don't. They stay at Comcast's
Webmail.
>||||||| Last week Outlook worked fine. I have checked and
>||||||| rechecked all the account settings in Outlook and
as far
>||||||| as I can tell, everything is set correctly.
>| Comcast does
>||||||| not offer support for Outlook and I am totally
stumped.
>|||||||
>||||||| Ann
>|||||||
>|||||||| -----Original Message-----
>|||||||| Okay - the crystal ball method is not working.
What error
>|||||||| message do you get?
>||||||||
>|||||||| --
>|||||||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>||||||||
>|||||||| Post all replies to the group to keep the
discussion intact.
>|||||||| Due to the (insert latest virus name here)
virus, all mail
>|||||||| sent to my personal account will be deleted
without reading.
>||||||||
>|||||||| After searching google.groups.com and finding no
answer,
>|||||||| anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com asked:
>||||||||
>||||||||| When I test the account settings it tells me
everything is
>||||||||| fine.
>|||||||||
>||||||||| Ann
>|||||||||| -----Original Message-----
>|||||||||| And when you test your account settings, does
it all work or
>|||||||||| is there an error message?
>||||||||||
>|||||||||| --
>|||||||||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>||||||||||
>|||||||||| Post all replies to the group to keep the
discussion intact.
>|||||||||| Due to the (insert latest virus name here)
virus, all mail
>|||||||||| sent to my personal account will be deleted
without reading.
>||||||||||
>|||||||||| After searching google.groups.com and finding
no answer,
>|||||||||| anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com asked:
>||||||||||
>||||||||||| Everything is configured correctly as far as
I can see.
>|||||||||||
>||||||||||| Ann
>|||||||||||| -----Original Message-----
>|||||||||||| Nope - have you tried looking at your
account settings as
>|||||||||||| laid out by Comcast on their website?
>||||||||||||
>|||||||||||| --
>|||||||||||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>||||||||||||
>|||||||||||| Post all replies to the group to keep the
discussion
>|||||||||||| intact. Due to the (insert latest virus name
here) virus,
>|||||||||||| all mail sent to my personal account will be
deleted
>|||||||||||| without reading.
>||||||||||||
>|||||||||||| After searching google.groups.com and
finding no answer,
>|||||||||||| Ann asked:
>||||||||||||
>||||||||||||| I am hoping someone can solve a problem for
me. I am
>||||||||||||| trying to use Outlook as my email server
through Comcast.
>||||||||||||| It initially worked. Now my emails no
longer come to
>||||||||||||| Outlook, but stay at the Comcast Webmail.
As far as I can
>||||||||||||| tell, I have everything configured
correctly in Outlook.
>||||||||||||| Any ideas why this is not working?
>|||||||||||||
>||||||||||||| Ann
>||||||||||||
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