Outlook won't check more than 4 mail accounts

Anyone know how to get around this?

[groovyhippo]

I recently added a fifth email account in my version of Microsoft Outlook 2002. While it happily logged in and checked the first four, it would never connect to the fifth one - no matter what order I listed them in, it would only ever check the first four.

After bugging my hosting company to let me log in more than four times at once, I've now found out that Outlook is the culprit. Seems that it has an in-built limit of four accounts.

I understand Outlook Express is fine as it logs into each account sequentially, but Outlook (i.e. the program that comes with the Office suite) attempts to log into each one concurrently and imposes this limit. I can't find anyway around this.

I know you're all probably going to suggest various other superior mail clients but I would like to continue with Outlook if at all possible. Has anyone else come up against this problem?

[HowlingWizard]

I currently Outlook 2000 setup to check about 15 accounts. Go look at the options. In look in the options. In Outlook 2002, options second tab (Mail Setup) there is a Send/Receive button to setup which accounts are checked when you hit send/receive. Select "All Accounts" ,click edit and make sure all the accounts are selected.

Norman

[andreasfriedrich]

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Brett_Tabke [webmasterworld.com] wrote at 08:12 AM on Jan. 12, 2001 in message #1 [webmasterworld.com]

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[groovyhippo]

Howling Wizard - I've been through the options you mention. But if I have more than 4 accounts in the one group, it won't log in to the 5th and above ones. My hosting company told me it was a problem in Outlook, but if you're saying you have 15 accounts in one group I'm wondering whether they're just trying to pass the buck. Hmmm.

Andreas - I would be inclined to look at alternatives, but I have so many emails saved in my nicely organised folder structure in Outlook I'd hate to have to start all over again. My whole life is filed away in Outlook folders!

[aspdaddy]

What error does it give? , there is no upper limit, probably the host trying to fob you off.

<added>Did you recently add the accounts using a control panel? Some host setups will have to manually add them from a form, and may get a password wrong etc. </added>

[andreasfriedrich]

>>alternatives

Hamster is not an alternative. I did not suggest any alternatives since you wrote in your first post that you wanted to keep using Outlook. Hamster allows you to collect mail from as many POP servers as you like. Outlook will then only have to connect to the server integrated into Hamster and get your mail from there. Thatīs just one account. You could go on using Outlook just like you did before.

Andreas

[groovyhippo]

OK, I've just proven that it's not a limit within Outlook. I've just set up another POP3 account with another ISP and added that to Outlook and it works fine. I'm now checking 4 accounts on my server and one on another server without any problems. But as soon as I add a 5th account from my server it fails. Looks like my hosting company was fobbing me off after all.

Andreas - Thanks, I'll check hamster out.

Aspdaddy - It's on a dedicated server so I set up my own accounts. Plus, I can connect to the account fine when I run it in isolation.

The error it gives is "Task sending and receiving reported error (0x800CCC0F): 'The connection to the server was interrupted. If this problem continues, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).'"

[aspdaddy]

Apparently there is a problem with some ISP's because OL tries simultaneous downloads.

The fix is to stagger the send and recieve

[groovyhippo]

That's what I've started doing. Trouble is, even though they're staggered, every now and again, the downloads co-incide and then I get the error message. Not a major problem, but still irritating.

Don't suppose anyone knows if there's some setting I can tweak at the server end to increase the limit of concurrent connections? I'm running a dedicated linux box using QMail.