Outlook Errors - Fixing Time Out Messages
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 0x80040900) 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
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Here is a quick screenshot of the advanced tab in Outlook 2007 where you can alter the time-out settings;
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