Irritating Outlook Setting...

[BPetro]

Surely others have run into this so I hope someone help with this... I have Outlook checking 3 different POP3 emails every few minutes over my Comcast hookup. I leave my computer up and wander up every day or two to check my emails. The problem is probably 2-3 times per week, Outlook times out getting the comcast email to respond. I have moved that timeout to a fairly long time (8mins) and am 99.999% sure it is not a large email problem; I more imagine Comcast cable is justs being "Comcastic" and down for a few minutes at a time. I get almost no emails at that address. But that still isn't the problem. The problem is STUPID Outlook feels that it MUST stop everything and sit there with a dialog box to inform me that it had this problem. I want it to just eat the error that happens 2-3 times per week, and just continue on and try again in 10 minutes or so (whatever my next scheduled download is) and we all know that the next time it will probably not time out. Instead it will sit there for 2 days not trying any new downloads from ANY of the 3 email servers (even though it only hit the error with one of them) until I finally wander upstairs to check and find I have to click OK and wait 5 minutes while it downloads 2 days emails.

Anyone else have this issue? Is there any "hidden" setting that turns off the irritating dialog information?

THANKS in advance if anyone can make any suggestion!

 

[smah]

My only suggestion involves either of these third party utilities:

ClickYes

http://www.contextmagic.com/express-clickyes/

Push the Freakin Button

http://majorgeeks.com/PTFB_Push_the_Freakin_Button_d4416.html

 

[JockMullin]

If you really think it is large messages that cause the problem, you can set outlook to only receive message less than a cutoff, say 1 meg (1000K). Then it will download only message headers for larger messages and you have to flag them to be downloaded on the next send/receive when you will presumable be available to click on timeout.

Jock