Article created July 26th 2009 at 13:42 Description
When using Outlook 2003 you notice that you are not receiving any new emails but you don’t seem to have a problem sending them.
Symptoms
- You can send but not receive mail from Microsoft Outlook yet you receive no errors
- You were receiving mail recently without problems
- Other users are not have the same problems/the problem is isolated to your email account
Explanation
This problem could be occurring if you are using POP3 email and your mailbox on the POP3 server has filled up and is therefore not receiving any more mail.This solution was written for and tested on Microsoft Outlook 2003 but will probably work on other versions also.
Solutions Below….
Solutions
Step 1 -Configure Outlook to remove the mail from the server
- In Outlook 2003, click Tools > Email Accounts..
- Select the View or change existing e-mail accounts option and click Next
- Select your email account from the list and click Change…
- Click More Settings…
- Click Advanced tab
- In the Delivery section, remove the check mark where it says Leave a copy of messages on the server
- Click OK
- Click Next
- Click Finish
- Restart Outlook and send yourself a test email.
Please Comment! Add your comments below if this solved your issue or if you found that your setup was different.Please let us know your Microsoft Outlook version and what exactly you were doing when you had this issue so that we can update this solution and help others with the same problem.
Tags: email, Microsoft Outlook, pop3, Solutions
Created in MS Outlook, Solutions
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