How to stop a download of emails from a pop server?

[john smith]

I've got Outlook Express 6 configured to look at two servers. One is my dial
up ISP and the other is a web-based server (gawab.com) that offers POP and
SMTP.

It was working fine for a couple of days (I've only been with OE a very
short time) and then in the middle of downloading all the emails from
gawab.com Outlook X just hung forever on one particular email. Never getting
any further with it.

I can't seem to cancel this particular download.

Even though the ISP is the default every new time I boot up OE it
immediately gets to work on that Gawab download again- and hangs again.

Even when I carefully select and click ONLY the ISP (it's actually
austarnet) it still goes off and does the Gawab thing.

I tried deleting the gawab account and going back and starting it again but
the same thing just happened - and all the previously downloaded emails were
downloaded again until we reached the hangup!!

I can't seem to find how to tell it not to download anything before a
certain date (say).

The only way, currently, I can send an email out from Outlook Express is to
delete the gawab account again. It seems you cannot force the instant
sending of an email in your out box.

Can anyone give me fixes for these things or I am I stuck with them? Seems
very poor control and very primitive for a MS product of this age...

regards,

abrogard.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I've got Outlook Express 6 configured to look at two servers. One is
my dial up ISP and the other is a web-based server (gawab.com) that
offers POP and SMTP.

It was working fine for a couple of days (I've only been with OE a
very short time) and then in the middle of downloading all the emails
from gawab.com Outlook X just hung forever on one particular email.
Never getting any further with it.

I can't seem to cancel this particular download.

Even though the ISP is the default every new time I boot up OE it
immediately gets to work on that Gawab download again- and hangs
again.

Even when I carefully select and click ONLY the ISP (it's actually
austarnet) it still goes off and does the Gawab thing.

I tried deleting the gawab account and going back and starting it
again but the same thing just happened - and all the previously
downloaded emails were downloaded again until we reached the hangup!!

I can't seem to find how to tell it not to download anything before a
certain date (say).

The only way, currently, I can send an email out from Outlook Express
is to delete the gawab account again. It seems you cannot force the
instant sending of an email in your out box.

Can anyone give me fixes for these things or I am I stuck with them?
Seems very poor control and very primitive for a MS product of this
age...

regards,

abrogard.

Hi -

This is a group to support Outlook from the Office group of programs.
Outlook Express is a part of Internet Explorer and is a quite different
program, despite its similar name..

You will probably get a faster and more expert answer if you post this to an
Outlook Express news group.

Try posting in one of these newsgroups:
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress for OE 5.x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress for OE 5.5x
microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress for OE 6.x
microsoft.public.internet.outlookexpress.mac for OE for Macintosh

If those groups aren't carried on the news server that's carrying this group
try using msnews.microsoft.com (MS's public news server that's the source
for all the microsoft.public newsgroups).

If you're accessing the Microsoft newsgroups through the MS Product Support
Services Community Newsgroups web interface, click
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer
to get to the Internet Explorer groups, then click the plus sign next to
your version of IE to see the link to the Outlook Express group for that
version number.

A good website for information on OE is:
http://www.tomsterdam.com/

 

[Chuck Davis]

This Newsgroup is for Office Outlook. You will have better
luck at the Outlook Express site:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie...inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress&lang=en&cr=US