Outlook: Checking Mail for More than 4 Accounts

[The_Dude]

Hi,
I have 7 POP3 mailboxes that I check with Outlook 2002. For the past year it has worked fine with my hosting company. No problemos whatsoever. Then I changed my hosting company, and I can only check four accounts before I get error messages saying Server interrupted connection for the other three. Obviously I can work around this problem, but it is annoying. My amazingly helpful hosting company said "that they don't use Outlook so they can't help", so I'm turning to you guys to see if you can help.

Thanks a lot in anticipation!

Brian

[2oddSox]

This is going to sound extremely patronising, and it's not meant to be that way. Why did you change hosting companies, and if the new one doesn't do what you want, why stay there? Especially if they 'don't use Outlook' and therefore seem unable to answer basic questions.

Do they have a limit on POP3 accounts on the service you signed up for?

From what you've suggested so far, I'd either go back to the old provider, or go for a new one - but if you go for a new one then determine the services you require before signing up.

2odd...

[The_Dude]

Hi 2oddsox,
Simple reason for changing was that my old company were charging £200/year whereas the new one is charging £15/year. I realise now however that you pay peanuts you get monkeys!

They have no limits on POP3 mailboxes, completely unlimited. You can check out what you get here: www.101-webhosting.com . They offer tons of features for the money, just the support department seems to be lacking :D

If I check all 7 accounts in Outlook Express it works fine becuase Outlook Express checks the accounts sequentially. Outlook seems to log onto all accounts simultaneously, and it's this that my new hosting company seems to have trouble with. It's obviously something that they just need to tweak their end but I don't have a clue what it is. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

[aspdaddy]

This is also discussed here:
[webmasterworld.com...]

It is the host limiting the number of simultaneous connections between you and the mail server.
You could try asking them to increase it, or use email-forwarding to reduce the number of accounts, or just stagger the connections.

[The_Dude]

Hi,

Thanks for your info. I have sussed the problem (found this on the Plesk support website):

I get the following error in my email client while checking mail:
error reading from network: cause: connection closed by foreign host. (0)

This error occurs when you are checking mail for multiple accounts on the
same mail client or from the same IP address. The default maximum number of
connections per ip address (MAXPERIP) is set to 4. This number can be
increased within the /usr/local/psa/courier-imap/etc/pop3d file. In the RPM
build this file is located in the /var/lib/courier-imap/etc/ directory. You
should also increase the MAXDAEMONS variable.

MAXPERIP= #Allows you to set how many pop connections from one IP

MAXDAEMONS= #Allows you to set how many pop connections totalYou can specify
the number of connections by replacing the N variable with the actual number
of connections.

Once the changes have been completed courier-imap must be restarted:

/usr/local/psa/rc.d/courier-imap restart # for the Standard build

/etc/rc.d/init.d/courier-imap restart # for the RPM build

Ahhh.....that's made my day. No more irritating error messages! Have a good day everyone!

[2oddSox]

It's easy when you know how, huh? ;)

Welcome to WW btw, The_Dude :)

2odd...