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springbokkie

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Hi all,

Recently Outlook has been giving me issues.
From someone send me a mail it takes 5 minutes for me to get it. Even if I click on the send/receive button every 10 seconds. I even have the automatic send/receive on 1min.

And some people's mail doesn't reach me at all (especially one company - business related)

What can be wrong?

PS. Connection is fine (sending with no problem)
 
Are you retrieving from a local exchange server, or remote POP3/IMAP?
Is this Outlook express or proper Outlook?
How big is your personal mail file?
 
LandyMan said:
Are you retrieving from a local exchange server, or remote POP3/IMAP?
Is this Outlook express or proper Outlook?
How big is your personal mail file?
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If it's a local Exchange, then either the server's overloaded...

...if it's POP3 account, then the line might be slow and the ISP's spam filtering might be too strict...
 
The_Librarian said:
If it's a local Exchange, then either the server's overloaded...

...if it's POP3 account, then the line might be slow and the ISP's spam filtering might be too strict...
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Can be the mail file, independent of operation mode ... I've seen it happen a few times on my wife's machine when the pst reaches 1.5Gb ... depends on which outlook springbokkie is using
 
LandyMan said:
Can be the mail file, independent of operation mode ... I've seen it happen a few times on my wife's machine when the pst reaches 1.5Gb ... depends on which outlook springbokkie is using
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Had it this morning at the work as well. Emails stopped coming in, and you can't move emails from one folder to the other.
 
Check on the exchange server, see if the service has started.
*The Main program where you create etc... there should be a util there where it tells you if all the services are running or not*

Sometimes, after the server has crashed, and restarted, it has to rebuild the .mbx file which if large (this file only ever gets bigger unless u defrag it) takes a while.

We used exchanged here at work till the server did exactly what you having problems with, then we said screw it and went LINUX (Centos) as our mail server.
So now, we using Thunderbird + IMAP setup :P

MOVE AWAY FROM EXCHANGE!
It's the only bit of good advice I can give you!
 
gdiza said:
Check on the exchange server, see if the service has started.
*The Main program where you create etc... there should be a util there where it tells you if all the services are running or not*

Sometimes, after the server has crashed, and restarted, it has to rebuild the .mbx file which if large (this file only ever gets bigger unless u defrag it) takes a while.

We used exchanged here at work till the server did exactly what you having problems with, then we said screw it and went LINUX (Centos) as our mail server.
So now, we using Thunderbird + IMAP setup :P

MOVE AWAY FROM EXCHANGE!
It's the only bit of good advice I can give you!
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We still use Exchange here... and yes, Exchange do require periodic maintenance.

And believe me, it's a nightmare should the Exchange server database crash or corrupt... or your AV program decides it is a good day to take a peek inside the database and delete it just because it found a virus...

Exchange sure do have a couple of good features, but I prefer a standard POP3 server any day - there's no monolithic database to defrag, and every user's emails is in the proper locations, not just in one mongo database. This is the Achilles Heel of Exchange.
 
Seems the problem lies with your ISP's filtering policies then. Or they're overloaded with spam mails, therefore the sluggish response of the mail server.

Sign up for a free google mail account (www.gmail.com) and use that instead.

The latest version of Thunderbird offers support for Google Mail, so you don't always have to go through a web interface.

So far I haven't had any serious issues with Gmail, spam filtering works great.

Regards

Libs
 
Thanks T_L

But had problems setting up my GMAIL with Outlook.

How to I have a look at those Q Landyman asked?
Can I set the filtering policies down a bit?
 
@ springbokkie - You have to ask your ISP tho. Keep in mind that, should you ask for your filtering to be thumbed down a bit, you may start to receive lots of spam and viruses.

Should this happen, then you can look at MailWasher to clean your mails before it goes to your inbox.

FWIW - have a look here at what spam is, and what you can do to protect yourself.

Pay attention to Bayesian filtering - this do take a lot of CPU resources, and also to Bayesian poisoning.

One last thing - why do you insist on using Outlook when most of the people here recommended that you switch over to Thunderbird? Thunderbird have built-in support for Gmail.

Regards

Libs
 
The_Librarian said:
@ springbokkie - You have to ask your ISP tho. Keep in mind that, should you ask for your filtering to be thumbed down a bit, you may start to receive lots of spam and viruses.

Should this happen, then you can look at MailWasher to clean your mails before it goes to your inbox.

FWIW - have a look here at what spam is, and what you can do to protect yourself.

Pay attention to Bayesian filtering - this do take a lot of CPU resources, and also to Bayesian poisoning.

One last thing - why do you insist on using Outlook when most of the people here recommended that you switch over to Thunderbird? Thunderbird have built-in support for Gmail.

Regards

Libs
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I just got the hang of it. Outlook that is. Change is difficult... :( :p

And the reason a company sending me info doesn't come through?

And regular mail like from family, can't that be dealt with separately from the "5min spam delay"?
 
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