How to convince Outlook to try again

[RobBroekhuis]

Hi all,
An annoying little problem I run into frequently: I connect to the internet via dial-up. My service provider can be iffy, and often Outlook cannot connect to the pop servers for my accounts on its first try. Unfortunately, it then refuses to try again: when I hit "send and receive", it just shows the screen with the previous connection errors, without another attempt to connect. Quitting Outlook and re-starting the program doesn't help - it seems to remember the problem. Sometimes I have to disconnect and re-establish the connection to my dial-up service; sometimes even that doesn't help, and I have to restart the PC. Is there anything I can do to have Outlook un-remember the failed attempt, so it can try again?
(am I making sense?)


Rob

 

[joegz]

Really...this is just a guess.

Open a command prompt.
Release and renew your IP information by typing in IPCONFIG /RELEASE and then IPCONFIG /RENEW

You may need to close outlook first, run the commands and reopen outlook.

Cheers



joegz
"Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is."

 

[RobBroekhuis]

Thanks Joegz, I'll give it a try (when I'm back home)

Rob