imap connection problem with Outlook 2003

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Des Boxall

I keep receiving the following message. "A connection to the server could
not be established imap.googlemail is now in offline mode. Can anyone please
resolve this issue for me as it happens everytime I use Outlook 2003 although
I can access my email links to online webpages, however I can't add folders
in Outlook etc.

Help!
 
D

Diane Poremsky [MVP]

Do you have the acct configured correctly? Review the configuration in
Tools, Accts.

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D

Des Boxall

Thank you Diane
I had configured my imap according to the google configuration instructions
for outlook 2003 however I finally resolved the issue by adding a POP3 email
account, now all my email send / receive works efficiently and Outlook no
longer goes offline. "If you can't go through go round."

Diane Poremsky said:
Do you have the acct configured correctly? Review the configuration in
Tools, Accts.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

Outlook Tips by email:
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EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
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Des Boxall said:
I keep receiving the following message. "A connection to the server could
not be established imap.googlemail is now in offline mode. Can anyone
please
resolve this issue for me as it happens everytime I use Outlook 2003
although
I can access my email links to online webpages, however I can't add
folders
in Outlook etc.

Help!
 
B

Brian Tillman

Des Boxall said:
I keep receiving the following message. "A connection to the server
could not be established imap.googlemail is now in offline mode.

You say that you have configured according to the gmail instructions, yet
"imap.googlemail" is not the name of the IMAP server. Did you just misspell
it for the account name, but spell it correctly for the server name? That
should be OK, but the correct server name is imap.gmail.com
 
D

Des Boxall

Brian Tillman said:
You say that you have configured according to the gmail instructions, yet
"imap.googlemail" is not the name of the IMAP server. Did you just misspell
it for the account name, but spell it correctly for the server name? That
should be OK, but the correct server name is imap.gmail.com

I did put the server names in as googlemail and not gmail because in the UK
they can't the name gmail due to copyright issues. I've now changed the
server settings to gmail and it seems to work fine.
 

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