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maximum number of email accountsOL 2002 SP3
Win XP HE SP1 hi, is there a maximum number of email accounts one can have in any one profile for OL to work properly? i am experiencing problems with OL, perhaps my profile, etc. and am trying to troubleshoot. tx there is, but it's quite a few (I think near 50). how many do you have?
There will be issues if you have more than 4 collecting from the same mail server. -- Show quoteDiane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/ Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQU***@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM "stef" <stef.bm_at_hotmail.removethis.com> wrote in message news:%23sEmfgV7GHA.3740@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > OL 2002 SP3 > Win XP HE SP1 > > hi, > is there a maximum number of email accounts one can have in any one > profile for OL to work properly? > i am experiencing problems with OL, perhaps my profile, etc. and am trying > to troubleshoot. > tx Hi Diane,
Thanks a lot for your reply as we may have an issue here. I have 26 email accounts in my default OL profile with 15 accounts on automatic polling. What could be the issue with more than 4 collecting from same email server? And can it be circumvented, etc.? Diane Poremsky [MVP] wrote: Show quote > there is, but it's quite a few (I think near 50). how many do you have? > There will be issues if you have more than 4 collecting from the same mail > server. > Outlook only connects to 4 at a time per server so others to the same server
may time out. It's more of a problem if you have a lot of mail to download in one of more of the accounts. You can avoid most problems if you set up different Send/Receive groups so no two accounts on the same server are checked at the same time, especially if the accounts get a lot of mail. Set the most important accounts to poll no more often than 8 - 10 min and the others less often. Say you have 4 accounts for each of 3 servers. Make 3 or 4 S/R groups and put one account from each server in each group. Set one to check every 8 min, one every 10 and one every 12, the 4th would be for 14 min. This should eliminate most problems, even if you put two accounts for one server in each group. if you have auto polling set to less than 5 min, try it at 10 - it may fix your problems without using S/R groups. Outlook gets buggy when it tries to start an autopoll when the previous one is still checking mail and may just stop checking mail period. -- Show quoteDiane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/ Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQU***@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM "stef" <stef.bm_at_hotmail.removethis.com> wrote in message news:u9d3TVW7GHA.844@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Hi Diane, > Thanks a lot for your reply as we may have an issue here. > I have 26 email accounts in my default OL profile with 15 accounts on > automatic polling. > What could be the issue with more than 4 collecting from same email > server? > And can it be circumvented, etc.? > > > Diane Poremsky [MVP] wrote: >> there is, but it's quite a few (I think near 50). how many do you have? >> There will be issues if you have more than 4 collecting from the same >> mail server. >> OK. I had started to use several groups but not gotten around to
setting up the polling for all the accounts that way. i will use 10 mns, 12 mns, etc. and make sure there is no simultaneous connections/overlap between the groups. Hopefully it will help. Looking at my network processes, I had noticed that OL was opening 4 connections at a time on the same mail server and was wondering why. I could be being refused access by the mail server of the hosting company if too many connections are coming fro same ip perhaps..... i'm not really sure...... i'll post results here. Diane Poremsky [MVP] wrote: Show quote > Outlook only connects to 4 at a time per server so others to the same server > may time out. It's more of a problem if you have a lot of mail to download > in one of more of the accounts. You can avoid most problems if you set up > different Send/Receive groups so no two accounts on the same server are > checked at the same time, especially if the accounts get a lot of mail. Set > the most important accounts to poll no more often than 8 - 10 min and the > others less often. > > Say you have 4 accounts for each of 3 servers. Make 3 or 4 S/R groups and > put one account from each server in each group. Set one to check every 8 > min, one every 10 and one every 12, the 4th would be for 14 min. This should > eliminate most problems, even if you put two accounts for one server in each > group. > > if you have auto polling set to less than 5 min, try it at 10 - it may fix > your problems without using S/R groups. Outlook gets buggy when it tries to > start an autopoll when the previous one is still checking mail and may just > stop checking mail period. >  |
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