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

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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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1. Accessing Hotmail From Your Outlook and Outlook Express
2. SMTP Errors
3. Accessing Your Hotmail addresses on Your Outlook Express
4. Common Outlook Express Errors
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