What is your send/receive interval? With 27 accounts, I would set it to no less than 15 minutes at least.

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After furious head scratching, Diamontina Cocktail asked:

| I have Vista Business and Outlook 2007 (actually Office 2007 to be
| more accurate).
|
| When I am at the machine and doing things, all is reasonably OK
| getting email through the approximately 27 email accounts I have. The
| pop3 accounts seem to take a long time to download or even check when
| there is no mail to be had but that isn't the problem. If I go away
| from the machine for an extended period - say 30 minutes or so - and
| forget to shut down Outlook 2007 before I leave, when I come back,
| nothing will work with internet. The machine works on its own but
| that's it. No attempt to make the machine work with internet works
| apart from a complete reboot whereupon the machine works as it always
| does.
|
| Does anyone know what may be going on here? The XP connected machines
| are fine all the time and this machine, prior to being on Vista and
| having Office 2007 on it (which upgrade happened within days of each
| other - vista first) worked fine with Outlook 2002 never having this
| problem. So, it seems to me to be something to do with Outlook 2007
| (or Office 2007) rather than Vista as I never had this sort of lockup
| using Outlook 2002 and Vista.
|
| Any help appreciated.