[mso] Re: Checkpointing Outlook Downloads
- From: "Greg Chapman" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 22:06:23 -0600
Well, this isn't a server issue. Outlook could just as easily have been
built to issue a message kill immediately after downloading it but this
would be even slower that what you're doing now. Have you ever
experimented with the header preview options in Outlook so that you may
grab headers and issue a server delete before getting the full message
load? This way you could spend a little more personal time pre-sorting the
mail before attempting to get the message bodies.
Greg Chapman
http://www.mousetrax.com
"Counting in binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11!
With thinking this clear, is coding really a good idea?"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James S. Huggins (MSO)
> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 8:06 PM
> To: Microsoft Office List
> Subject: [mso] Checkpointing Outlook Downloads
>
>
>
> I am using Outlook 2003 running under Win XP.
>
> After being offline for a while (like today, while
> travelling), I arrive at
> a destination and re-connect to the net to receive email.
>
> Usually, such reconnections are via dial up.
>
> And frequently, the email download is 500-1000 messages.
>
> Here is the problem . . .
>
> After running for 30-60 minutes downloading "most" of the messages
> (including several "large" ones of 1-2 MB, the data line
> drops. My computer
> then gently reconnects and the download begins again . . .
> redownloading
> duplicates of messages already downloaded.
>
> When I have frequent disconnects, the process runs time after
> time, not
> completing, redownloading duplicate after duplicate, each
> time working with
> a larger and larger POP file as more and more emails arrive,
> until FINALLY,
> it runs to completion and Outlook deletes the emails from the server.
>
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