Outlook Stalls When Receiving Mails

[raro]

very strange problem since yesterday...when downloading mails, the last mail to be downloaded stalls apparently at the last bit of data. If I cancel send/receive and press send/receive again the mails in the outbox won't go out and the mail that is not downloaded won't come in either.

Need to close outlook, shoot it in orbit in the task manager and restart. Then the mails in the outbox go out and all incoming mails cued up so far come in. Except for the last one to be downloaded. Repeat closing Outlook...

[lopburi3]

There have been a slew of updates made this week so perhaps one of them? I am not using Outlook anymore as found Gmail on-line does the job and does it better for me so no direct experience recently.

[lomatopo]

Does it hang on the exact same email each time? If so I've experienced that problem, usually a result of a network hiccup. I go to my email providers' web ui, forward the offending email to myself at another account, then delete it. I use outlook to front end all my email accounts, including several gmail accounts as it is so much easier to manage from a single interface than logging in to multiple websites.

I had several emails hang in my outlook outbox this week, I moved them to the draft folder, edited them, copied the contents , readdressed them and sent them. They went out.

[sulasno]

Outlook 2007 working without problems

[lopburi3]

Gmail can do the same process as front end. I have local IP and Hotmail accounts on mine. Keep a tab open on browser and no need to log in anywhere and no extra programs need to be running. Gmail will require a new log in about once a week; which is a click.

[tonytigerbkk]

Hi Raro,

Go to http://mail2web.com then log in with your normal data (the user name and password that you use for your outlook account).

From there you will be able to delete any offending e-mails.

It is also a great site to manage your e-mails from when you do not have access to your home/laptop computer during trips abroad, holidays away, etc.

Regards,

Tiger

[sevenhills]

IMO,Outlook is and always has been crap!

Change to GMail and all the problems are gone. :jap:

[raro]

IMO,Outlook is and always has been crap!

Change to GMail and all the problems are gone. :jap:

thanks for the great advise. Can you also explain me how to manage several corporate accounts on gmail? Synchronize the contacts database across several computers WITHOUT storing my contacts somewhere online? Dragging and dropping files in and out of e-mails by mouse click? and last not least....reading mails when no internet connection is present.

E-mail is for me not a hobby but a business necessity.

It is not the same e-mail that stalls, but always the last one in any given queue. and always from my corporate account. Have also informed corporate IT to look into this.

[raro]

Hi Raro,

Go to http://mail2web.com then log in with your normal data (the user name and password that you use for your outlook account).

From there you will be able to delete any offending e-mails.

It is also a great site to manage your e-mails from when you do not have access to your home/laptop computer during trips abroad, holidays away, etc.

Regards,

Tiger

amazing! Thanks a lot for that one!

[klikster]

thanks for the great advise. Can you also explain me how to manage several corporate accounts on gmail? Synchronize the contacts database across several computers WITHOUT storing my contacts somewhere online? Dragging and dropping files in and out of e-mails by mouse click? and last not least....reading mails when no internet connection is present.

E-mail is for me not a hobby but a business necessity.

It is not the same e-mail that stalls, but always the last one in any given queue. and always from my corporate account. Have also informed corporate IT to look into this.

Tryout PMMail 2000. It is a bit expensive at $40 or $50, but you can configure any number of "Sent From". Has filters, canned replies and more bells & whistles for each account. Also has a "preview" feature that lets you look at what is on the server before you download.

PMMail is designed to handle multiple email accounts easily. This allows today's busy user one program to gather mail for an unlimited number of email accounts. These accounts can be password protected so that several people can use one copy if necessary.