Timeout error message 0x8004210A with Outlook 2003 SP2 to pop serv

[Anthony D]

Hi,

Am using Outlook on XP Pro SP 2 to retrieve new messages every 1 minute from
a pop server (Yahoo.co.uk) in order to process them automatically and I get
the timeout error message 0x8004210A about 5 times a day, at the same time a
logon box. Clicking OK on the logon box and on Cancel All on the timeout
message box solves the problem (until the next occurs). My guess is that this
is caused by network errors or some errors with the pop server (enabling
longer timeouts e.g. up to 1 minute seems to make no difference).
So I would say that the connection is actually quite reliable.
However if anyone can suggest how to programatically clear such error
messges, ideally from VBA (Excel), that would be most helpful (?)

 

[bonei]

Im getting the same thing. There is a help topic on the site, but it is about
firewall and ant-virus settings.

Out of interest, is your problem intermittent? (Mine is) and do you use
activesync( As this seems to be part of my issue)??

 

[Brian Tillman]

Am using Outlook on XP Pro SP 2 to retrieve new messages every 1
minute from a pop server (Yahoo.co.uk) in order to process them
automatically

A send/receive interval of one minute is way too short. The recommended
value is about ten minutes.

 

[Anthony D]

Hi,

Yes it turned out that it was intermittent which makes me wonder what caused
it,
high traffic/Yahoo server were thought likely at the time. It could also
appear on one PC or the other - generally not on both !
I found a recommendation (sorry forgot where exactly) that explicitly
specifying that no authentication on the mail server is required with CDO
could be helpful. This seems to have helped - the problem has not recurred
over the last two months (but will keep watching !)

.Item("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate")
= 0