send/receive cancel does NOT work

[Keith G Hicks]

This has been making me nuts for years now. I'm finally at the point where I
want to know what's the deal with this. I use Outlook 2003 for most of my
email addresses. Occasionally one or 2 of them is down for some reason
(Comcast problems for example). So when I click send/receive I get errors
that the server can't be located or something similar. That's understandable
and not a problem. When I click the "cancel" button on the send receive
window the window closes and it appears that it has stopped trying. However
after a minute or so I get a box that pops up asking to confirm my email
user name and password. THis makes it clear that Outlook is still trying to
send/receive even though I cancelled all the tasks on the send/receive
window. What the heck is up with this? Why is there even a cancel button (in
fact there are 2) if it does nothing? IS there a way to really cancel them
or is this just one of the thousands of unresolved bugs in MS products?

 

[DL]

If you have send/receive every xx minutes then the process will start again,
ensure its set for 10mins or longer, & then if the server is down you'll get
the notification again

 

[Keith G Hicks]

I don't have send/receive on the automatic timer. I have about 10 different
email addresses that I check with Outlook. I always use send/recieve
manually. Nothing set to automatic at all. The problem is that when I hit
send/receive just once and any of the addresses get hung up, I often hit
cancel to stop it. For example, this morning there was a problem with my
ISP's email system so 5 of my addresses were not working. When it's on the
receive it hangs a bit as it's still trying. That's the point where I hit
cancel. But Outlook still keeps trying. Not later on but in that same
send/recive instance. The send/receive window closes but a minute or 2
later, like I said before, it asks for login credentials. I hit cancel on
that little window. Finally after several seconds the send/receive window
pops up again with red exclamation marks next to the processes that failed
and shows an error message. Send/receive was only activated once. It's not a
problem with any automatic or manual periodic activation of send/receive.

 

[DL]

So you manually send/receive each account, you dont have an accounts group?
I cannot say I've ever experiences such a problem with 8 accounts, but then
they are set up in an accounts group, so I have a 'Cancel All' Btn - which
does

 

[Keith G Hicks]

No. I didn't say that. They're all in the same group. I manually
send/receive them all at once via the main send/receive button. It's just
not set to go automatically ever xx minutes.

 

[DL]

The Cancel All btn works for me

No. I didn't say that. They're all in the same group. I manually
send/receive them all at once via the main send/receive button. It's just
not set to go automatically ever xx minutes.

 

[Keith G Hicks]

Are you using O2003? I'm also using it under Win2k Pro so I don't know if
that matters. I typically run into problems that are unusual. Maybe when I
upgrade to XP in the next few months it'll stop doing that. LOL.

 

[DL]

Currently using 2007 but previously 2003, and prior to that 2000 with no
problems on any.
Perhaps you have an intigrated anti virus that may cause problems?