What Is It?

Yesterdays post ( Remove Duplicate Emails and Other Items from MS Outlook with ODIR ) detailed some problems with Outlook duplicating emails if there is a timeout on the Internet connection while downloading your emails from the server. One tip that can help with this problem is to increase the timeout interval for the server connection.

What Does It Do - The Essentials?

Summary:

• Sets the Server Timeout on a per email account basis

Pros: What’s Good?

• Part of Outlook Account Settings

• Simple to do

Cons:What’s Not So Good?

• May not be a complete solution – but worth a try

More About What to Do in Detail:

Microsoft Support article - How to troubleshoot error messages that you receive when try to send and receive e-mail in Outlook and in Outlook Express gives details on how to gives details on this and some other problems with account settings.

A Quick Guide with Screenshots:

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First open the Email Accounts dialog from the Outlook menu:

In the E-mail Accounts dialog select the

View or change existing e-mail accounts option and then click the Next button

Select the account that you wish to change the settings for and then click on the Change button

This now shows the details for the account selected:

Click on the More Settings… button and choose the Advanced Tab

You can now change the Server Timeouts setting using the slider, as it moves to the right the time increases and vice versa. The actual length of the time out is shown to the right of the slider in minutes and seconds.

What is the ProReviewer Experience?

I have changed the server timeouts on my email accounts with great success in the past where I had connection problems. It is definitely worth a try

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