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MS outlook 2003

Hi

Please can one help as for the last few days I had probems with receiving emails via outlook I have restored a couple of times and it has worked then stops receiving I run vista hp, but it is now become annoying to say the least:(

so please help friends:)
 
How do you mean it stops receiving, does the e-mail server respond or is it trying to download the messages but just doesn't complete? Also, what do you mean by restore? System restore, full backups etc. Is this an IDNet e-mail address or something else?
 
Make sure your .pst file is less than 5 Gb, I think that's the limit for Outlook 2003. Also do a search for scanpst on your hard drive and run that, you'll have to supply the location of the .pst file when you run it. It's a Microsoft utility that fixes any corruption in the file.
 
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Thanks for the link, I knew they'd increased it at some stage. I remember fixing somebody's outlook last year and it's a pain when it reaches the limit, you can run utilities to reduce the size but it deletes emails to do so.

You get the same problem with Outlook Express which has a 2gb limit on each folder.
 
And earlier versions of Outlook, up to 2002!
 
How do you mean it stops receiving, does the e-mail server respond or is it trying to download the messages but just doesn't complete? Also, what do you mean by restore? System restore, full backups etc. Is this an IDNet e-mail address or something else?

Hi Mark

I can send but receiving just stops I check idnet email thats ok. I restore to a certain time and date?. I have my gmail & one other email address come via outlook?.:nod:
I am getting on to dell support tomorrow to see if they throw some light on it as I never had this problem before with my old laptop running XP Pro:)

Thank you to all those who have answered my request as I have it all on board:D
 
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First things first, you should try checking your e-mail via IDNet's Webmail platform to fully exclude their POP server as the problem http://webmail.idnet.com . Have you tried the selective manual send and recieve method too, since I've had the automated solution hang from time to time too.

You might also find it useful to install Thunderbird and use that to check your e-mails as a test, it's a lot better than Outlook but that's just my opinion:

http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

It may also be that somebody has sent you a huge attachment and that the mail is being recieved but only very slowly, so much so that you don't notice. One way around this is to enable 'Preview' mode, where the e-mail is kept on the server but you can still manage whether or not to download them individually.

The only other thing I can think of is that it could be Outlooks crappy cache mode, if so then you might want to disable it as a large e-mail history could be causing problems. Click the File menu, the choice just above Exit should be Work Offline, if that is checked then you may be using cached mode and that could be the problem. Just select this in the list to change the status.
 
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