For many people there is nothing more frustrating than getting errors in their Outlook/Outlook Express. I have talked to people who have taken an hour to do a simple 2 minute email just because they kept receiving Outlook errors.
Generally Outlook errors are fairly simple things to fix so I will begin over the next few weeks to write some posts that will assist you if you are having trouble with Outlook errors. Today I will talk about a simple fix you can do if you ever receive a time-out error message.
Sometimes when you receive an error message in Outlook (something like 0×80040900) you may also receive a message beside it that says time-out error message. You may be able to totally fix this problem by increasing the server time-out setting, just follow these points below to resolve this problem;
Outlook 2000 (CW)
Go to the Tools menu, click Services
In the Services tab, select Internet E-mail
Click Properties
Click the Advanced tab
Gradually increase the server time-out setting until the problem is resolved
Outlook 2000 (IMO)
Go to the Tools menu, click Accounts
Select the target account
Click Properties
Click the Advanced tab
Gradually keep increasing the server time-out setting until the problem is resolved
Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003
Go to the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts
Click View or change existing e-mail accounts
Click Next
Click your POP3 account
Click Change
Click More Settings
Click the Advanced tab
Gradually increase the server time-out setting until the issue is resolved.
Outlook 2007
Go to the Tools menu, click Account Settings
Click to select the target POP3 account
Click Change
Click More Settings
Click the Advanced tab
You must now gradually increase the server time-out setting until the issue is fixed
Outlook Express 5.x and 6.0
Go to the Tools menu, click Accounts
Click the Mail tab
Click your POP3 account
Click Properties
Click the Advanced tab
You must now gradually increase the server time-out setting until the problem is fixed
