Gmail + Outlook Express - Any Problems?
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I’ve been using Gmail and access my mail account using Outlook Express. During the past few years that I have been using this procedure, everything has worked very well. But since around the first of the year [this is a guess as to the exact time], my mail delivery seems to hang.
Mail starts to come into my inbox, than will stop. I get the pop-up box whether I want to wait or cancel the operation. Cancel is a no-no since when the operation starts up again, the same emails and downloaded a second or third time. I usually click on the wait button. Sometimes this will take 2 or 3 times before all the mail arrives.
But what I have noticed during the past few weeks is that this now may take 5 or 6 times clicking on the wait button before all email arrives.
So my questions is this. Is anyone else having this problem? More importantly has anyone found a solution?
Commenst welcome.
Tags: gmail, outlook express, hang, wait, cancel, pop up box, inbox, solution, problem,
4 Comments
the oracle
April 10th, 2008
at 6:56am
Have you tried retrieving it using Live Mail? There also has been a great deal of noise about Gmail being blocked by certain ISPs. I wonder if you might be having problems with an ISP using a filter that doesn’t completely block but slows down the delivery by doing a thorough inspection.
Just a couple shots in the dark, as I use Live Mail or Outlook to retrieve Gmail on several machines, and see no such behavior - my ISP is Verizon.
Ron Schenone
April 10th, 2008
at 11:21am
Thanks Marc,
You rattled my brain cells. It is my ISP. I have noticed that my ISP mail and also MSN account are also slow coming through Outlook. SO I checked with my ISP and sure enough, they have been having filtering issues. Naturally they don’t’ let you know. After all. They are the Cable company and don’t have to since they have my hands tied to my n-ts since they are the only broadband available to me.
GOOSE
April 10th, 2008
at 5:18pm
Geez Ron……..I could have told you that. Just call if you have any other problems…..Just remember….Volcano……..
Ron Schenone
April 10th, 2008
at 5:54pm
Thanks Goose. Just knowing you are there in case I have a technical problem gives me GOOSE bumps all over.