Cannot setup more than 5 POP3 accounts

[RobertW]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

I am converting to Entourage and I maintain multiple e-mail accounts (indivudal family members, business, and my personal account). My issue is I can only setup 5 different POP3 accounts, the 6 or 7th account on send and receive gives a "server timeout" error. After extensive testing (thinking I set something up wrong) I discovered if I deleted one of the *working* e-mail accounts (to get the total accounts back to 5); the account that *was* failing suddenly started working fine. I've repeated this pattern multiple times. Is this a limitation in Entourage?

 

[Adam Bailey]

I am converting to Entourage and I maintain multiple e-mail accounts
(indivudal family members, business, and my personal account). My issue is I
can only setup 5 different POP3 accounts, the 6 or 7th account on send and
receive gives a "server timeout" error. After extensive testing (thinking I
set something up wrong) I discovered if I deleted one of the *working* e-mail
accounts (to get the total accounts back to 5); the account that *was*
failing suddenly started working fine. I've repeated this pattern multiple
times. Is this a limitation in Entourage?

No, Entourage will not prevent you from having 5 POP3 accounts, but
your ISP may be limiting the number of simultaneous outbound
connections, or if the accounts are all on the same server it may have
an incoming limit.

Are you trying to connect with all of them in a single Send & Receive?

 

[RobertW]

There are no limits at the ISP. The configuration works fine in Outlook 2007 (still setup and functional) and did so with the prior version Outlook 2003 for years.

In additon, only a couple of accounts are at the main ISP, the other accounts are with another hosting service. Doesn't matter if its 6 all at one ISP or 3 and 3 or any combo inbetween, that 6th account (regardless of ISP) gives a server timeout error.

This is stricitly an Entourage issue.