Help... Outlook XP (2002) can't retrieve e-mail from more than 4 e-mail accounts during a single send/recieve session

[wjsulliv]

I completely understand the problem, but I don't know how to solve it, thus I am hoping you can help.

The problem:
In Outlook 2000 you could send/receive from as many e-mail accounts as you want at any given time because Outlook accessed each account one at a time. I.e. if you had 7 accounts, it checks the e-mail from account 1, then 2, then 3... then 7. In Outlook 2002 it checks all the e-mails simultaneously. I.e. it checks 1, 2, 3... 7 all at the exact same time.

My hosting company only allows me to access 4 accounts simultaneously, thus when I try and get the mail from all seven accounts, I always get 4 successful retrievals and 3 error retrievals.


Question:
Does anybody know a way to make Outlook 2002 check the accounts sequentially? Or to make it check in multiple steps (each step containing less than 5 e-mail accounts), where each step is sequential (I.e. I can check 4 accounts, then the next 4 accounts... Thus 4 accounts at the same time, and each group of 4 accounts sequentially).

 

[c0rv1d43]

In your circumstances I'd try setting up Send/Receive Groups, each with 4 accounts or less. Then I'd just do send/receive by groups. Kind of an ugly workaround, but certainly doable.

- Collin

 

[wjsulliv]

Unfotuantely that means that I would have to trigger each group individually, to go and get mail. When they are both connected to the 'send/recieve' button I still get errors...

Anybody else got any ideas?

 

[c0rv1d43]

Yes, you'd have to retrieve the groups individually by using the menu, AFAIK. That's what I meant by saying that it was kind of an ugly workaround. Sorry, I can't think of anything better. The real problem is with the people who put the restriction on the number of accounts you can retrieve in one pass.

I hope you find a solution.

- Collin