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Emrys Davies - 28 Jan 2007 15:37 GMT

I have Win98 SE, OE6 and IE6

Until very recently when I sent an e-mail to myself it was delivered
almost immediately with OE being open. Now it is only delivered when I
bootup, together with other incoming mail, but my configuration has not
altered.

How can I remedy this?

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Gary S. Terhune - 28 Jan 2007 17:18 GMT

If "other incoming email" is not being delivered until you boot up (and, I
presume, you open OE) then something has changed. Make sure the "Check for
messages every XX minutes" on the General tab of Options is checked, and if
it already is, try unchecking it, Applying, then re-checking it. Set it to a
very short period, like 1 minute.

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> I have Win98 SE, OE6 and IE6
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> How can I remedy this?

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Emrys Davies - 28 Jan 2007 20:33 GMT

> If "other incoming email" is not being delivered until you boot up (and, I
> presume, you open OE) then something has changed. Make sure the "Check for
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> > How can I remedy this?

My 'Check for messages every ? minutes' was set at 2 minutes, but I
changed it to 1 minute, but there was no change.

I checked my Mail Box at Tiscali with AvirMail and, although I know that
it should contain two of my test e-mails, I found that it is empty.
AvirMail shows that my wife's Mailbox contains two e-mails so the
software works. This is strange because if I reboot I will get the two
test e-mails.

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM - 28 Jan 2007 22:41 GMT

>> If "other incoming email" is not being delivered until you boot up
> (and, I
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> software works. This is strange because if I reboot I will get the two
> test e-mails.

The "delivered almost immediately" was by chance. Email checking should
never be set to more often than five minutes. When you send it goes to the
SMTP server. Then the SMTP server has to send it to the POP3 or IMAP (or
HTTP for Hotmail) server before you can receive it. Therefore you are at
the mercy of that transfer which is out of your hands. You don't know what
the cycle period for those servers and it mail well be dependent on their
load, which is at the mercy of other users.

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Emrys Davies - 28 Jan 2007 23:09 GMT

> >> If "other incoming email" is not being delivered until you boot up
> > (and, I
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> the cycle period for those servers and it mail well be dependent on their
> load, which is at the mercy of other users.

Frank,

What you say makes real sense when I consider the time factor in respect
of the reception of my e-mail and I am really grateful for your most
helpful contribution. I have amended the 'Check for messages' to every
5 minutes.

Thanks again,
Regards,
Emrys Davies.

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Michael Santovec - 28 Jan 2007 23:14 GMT

If the messages aren't in your ISP's server mail box, there is no way
for OE to download it.

It could be a delay at your ISP, but then it would be a coincidence that
you get the message when you reboot.

Are you running any anti-spam software or anti-virus set to scan e-mail?
Either of those could cause the problem. Your anti-spam could consider
messages from yourself as spam, since that is a common spammer's
technique (make the From the same as the To).

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>> If "other incoming email" is not being delivered until you boot up
> (and, I
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> two
> test e-mails.

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Emrys Davies - 28 Jan 2007 23:23 GMT

> If the messages aren't in your ISP's server mail box, there is no way
> for OE to download it.
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> > two
> > test e-mails.

Michael and Frank,

Now that I know how the e-mail sytem works at the server I am quite sure
that mine is working properly and I am grateful to you both for being so
helpful and informative.

Thanks a lot.

Regards,
Emrys Davies.

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Michael Santovec - 29 Jan 2007 20:50 GMT

You are welcome

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>> If the messages aren't in your ISP's server mail box, there is no way
>> for OE to download it.
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> Regards,
> Emrys Davies.

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