What does this mean "Microsoft Outlook is synchronizing folders"?

J

JFredricks

Quit often, several times a day (I believe), I see this status when pointing
to the Outlook icon in the system tray. Does anyone know exactly what is
going on during this "synchronizing folders" and hos to turn it off so that
it won't occur, if possible? I'm using Office 2003 (Outlook 11.8118.8132)
SP2.
 
B

BillR [MVP]

What type of accounts do you have?
I'd say it's a needed process so you can access your data and should be left
as is.
 
J

Jay K

Sounds like you Outlook is contacting your mail server and pulling down
information like new mail etc... it is just "synchronizing folders" with the
server. If it won't go away and gives an error - maybe you have an old/bad
pop3 account in there?
 

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