Synchronization

[Toof]

I have a new laptop running windows vista home premium and have installed
office 2007 enterprise. I am having major issues with outlook as follows:

Outlook is always synchronizing folders although I do not connect to any
exchange server.

When I try to send a message, it locks up and keeps adding taks in the
progress bar and never completes.

I can only stop it by shutting down outlook.

Moreover even after shutting down outlook I occasionally find the send
receive process still continuing with the same lock up of tasks being added
faster than they can finish.

This version of outlook worked fine with my last laptop running XP SP2

 

[Kevin Young]

I have a new laptop running windows vista home premium and have installed
office 2007 enterprise. I am having major issues with outlook as follows:

Outlook is always synchronizing folders although I do not connect to any
exchange server.

When I try to send a message, it locks up and keeps adding taks in the
progress bar and never completes.

I can only stop it by shutting down outlook.

Moreover even after shutting down outlook I occasionally find the send
receive process still continuing with the same lock up of tasks being added
faster than they can finish.

This version of outlook worked fine with my last laptop running XP SP2

What protocol are you using to get your email as in addition to
Exchange, both IMAP and HTTP accounts normally sync with the server.

You might also want to check how often your accounts are set to
send\receive as it sounds like before it finishes syncing with the
remote server(s) it is trying to check again.

 

[Toof]

All my mail is pop3

What protocol are you using to get your email as in addition to
Exchange, both IMAP and HTTP accounts normally sync with the server.

You might also want to check how often your accounts are set to
send\receive as it sounds like before it finishes syncing with the
remote server(s) it is trying to check again.

 

[Kevin Young]

All my mail is pop3

Sounds like something is hanging when Outlook is doing a send\receive
and that your send\receive setting may be set to occur too often. Are
the messages you send eventually going out? You state it locks up and
keeps adding tasks but I wasn't clear on whether the messages were
eventually going out.

If email is not going out I would check your authentication settings and
port for your SMTP server against what your ISP or mail provider recommends.

The send/receive settings can be adjusted in Tools -> Send/Receive ->
Send/Receive Settings - > Define Send/Receive Groups - make sure it
isn't set to check too often.

 

[Toof]

Kevin,

Thank you for your help. Email was not being sent. I deleted all mail
accounts and found that problem went away. I then added accunts one by one.
At first I added all my work mail pop3 accounts. So far no more issues. I
will add my web mail (Gmail) accounts and think they may be the source of the
problem although they are also pop3.

Send receive frequency is set for 30 minutes.

Are there any known issues with gmail or other web mail types? Funnily
enough, with XP, my web mail caused no problems.

 

[Toof]

I tested for a few days without adding the web mail accounts to outlook. I
found that when I create a message and input the sender's address by pressig
the 'To' button and searching through my contact list; then try to send the
message, the program locks up and starts a synchronization loop that does not
end.

Your comments will be apprecaited.

 

[Cynthia]

The send/receive settings can be adjusted in Tools -> Send/Receive ->
Send/Receive Settings - > Define Send/Receive Groups - make sure it
isn't set to check too often.

Kevin - thank you thank you thank you!!! This MAY be the solution. I have
5 POP3 accounts and I changed the settings to be much longer. Now everything
seems to be working! However, it's only been a few minutes since I did that
but so far I have not seen that dreaded double folder with the evil msg
"Microsoft Office Outlook folders are synchronizing" in the task bar. And a
simple email that used to hang a few minutes before going out now is gone
quickly.

I'll report back if this turns out just to be a temporary reprieve.

-- Cynthia

 

[GeorgeR]

I have a new laptop running windows vista home premium and have installed
office 2007 enterprise. I am having major issues with outlook as follows:

Outlook is always synchronizing folders although I do not connect to any
exchange server.

When I try to send a message, it locks up and keeps adding taks in the
progress bar and never completes.

I can only stop it by shutting down outlook.

Moreover even after shutting down outlook I occasionally find the send
receive process still continuing with the same lock up of tasks being added
faster than they can finish.

This version of outlook worked fine with my last laptop running XP SP2

 

[GeorgeR]

I have a new laptop running windows vista home premium and have installed
office 2007 enterprise. I am having major issues with outlook as follows:

Outlook is always synchronizing folders although I do not connect to any
exchange server.

When I try to send a message, it locks up and keeps adding taks in the
progress bar and never completes.

I can only stop it by shutting down outlook.

Moreover even after shutting down outlook I occasionally find the send
receive process still continuing with the same lock up of tasks being added
faster than they can finish.

This version of outlook worked fine with my last laptop running XP SP2

I have the same problem with Outlook 2007 and it just started out of
nowhere. I have shortened the send/receive times but no help. I run four pop3
accounts and one AOL account. Microsoft solution center is no help at all.
Shutting down is the only way to currently stop it..

 

[Faraaz]

I have a customer who is using Outlook 2007 SP1. The issue he is facing is quite weird and that is Outlook keeps on doing send recieve in loop. There is no problem with the mail flow either and also 'schedule send/recieve' is define at 5 minutes...Don't what is causing this issue.
Any help will be appreciated.

Thank
-
Faraaz Azhar

 

[Nancy OLeary]

How this is done doesn't matter for me. I can type them in by hand, hit
reply, do whatever...and it does this on me. I'm currently looking at tasks
completed in the 9000 range.