Am using Office 2003 and Out;look refuses to check email by itself -
I always have to press F9.

I have changed the automatic Send/receive times for both online and
offline with no help.

I tried an office repair - no change.

Ther only think that I think could have caused this is that I changed
the name of the computer.

Any ideas on how to fix this or do I need to remove Outlook and do a
fresh install?

Thansk

Bill

It is impossible to determine why automatic polling is failing when you do
not post your mail account type, connection type and polling settings.
The Magic 8-ball says, "Try again later." Next time post some information.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
wrote in message
...
Am using Office 2003 and Out;look refuses to check email by itself -
I always have to press F9.

I have changed the automatic Send/receive times for both online and
offline with no help.

I tried an office repair - no change.

Ther only think that I think could have caused this is that I changed
the name of the computer.

Any ideas on how to fix this or do I need to remove Outlook and do a
fresh install?

Thansk

Bill

Using Outlook 2003 sp2
3 mail accounts all POP3
connection type is Lan to cable modem
Polling settings are now set at 1 minute for offline and online

I did try adding another account group in case the "all accounts" group was
damaged and set that one to frequent checking too but it made no difference.
The only way I get email id if I manually request it through button or F9




Bill




"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
It is impossible to determine why automatic polling is failing when you do
not post your mail account type, connection type and polling settings.
The Magic 8-ball says, "Try again later." Next time post some information.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
wrote in message
...
Am using Office 2003 and Out;look refuses to check email by itself -
I always have to press F9.

I have changed the automatic Send/receive times for both online and
offline with no help.

I tried an office repair - no change.

Ther only think that I think could have caused this is that I changed
the name of the computer.

Any ideas on how to fix this or do I need to remove Outlook and do a
fresh install?

Thansk

Bill

a wrote:

Using Outlook 2003 sp2
3 mail accounts all POP3
connection type is Lan to cable modem
Polling settings are now set at 1 minute for offline and online

One minute is way too short. Try increasing it to eight or ten minutes.
--
Brian Tillman

Outlook should ignore that request. Did you really think Outlook could
complete an entire polling cycle for 3 accounts in 1 minute then start it
all over again? Why would you do this?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"a" wrote in message
. ..
Using Outlook 2003 sp2
3 mail accounts all POP3
connection type is Lan to cable modem
Polling settings are now set at 1 minute for offline and online

I did try adding another account group in case the "all accounts" group
was damaged and set that one to frequent checking too but it made no
difference.
The only way I get email id if I manually request it through button or F9




Bill




"Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
It is impossible to determine why automatic polling is failing when you
do not post your mail account type, connection type and polling settings.
The Magic 8-ball says, "Try again later." Next time post some
information.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
wrote in message
...
Am using Office 2003 and Out;look refuses to check email by itself -
I always have to press F9.

I have changed the automatic Send/receive times for both online and
offline with no help.

I tried an office repair - no change.

Ther only think that I think could have caused this is that I changed
the name of the computer.

Any ideas on how to fix this or do I need to remove Outlook and do a
fresh install?

Thansk

Bill

You guys are tough!

Why set to 1 minute? - for troubleshooting of course!

It was originally set to 5 minutes ( the default I suspect).

And yes it can easily check mail per minute - 25 seconds is all it
takes when I hit F9


So back to the real problem - what would cause Outlook to ignore the
polling time - whatever it is.

Bill

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:59:47 -0400, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
wrote:

Outlook should ignore that request. Did you really think Outlook could
complete an entire polling cycle for 3 accounts in 1 minute then start it
all over again? Why would you do this?