Aeroloose, I went to advanced settings and turned off all four
notifications. After a shutdown and restart, Outlook checked for mail. It
rechecked about 35 seconds later, and still showed the notification on the
bottom, right-hand corner of the screen. My timer was set at 30 minutes.

I reset the timer to 3 minutes, restarted Outlook, and then sent a test mail
to myself. Outlook checked for mail 30-35 seconds later, and nothing
happened. It checked again in roughly 30 seconds, and my test message came
through. That suggests the polling time is messed up, along with the
notifications. Other ideas? I guess I'll restore the popup for now.

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On 5/29/2010 11:01 PM, jekeesl wrote:
Aeroloose, I removed my Hotmail account and uninstalled Outlook
Connector (version 12). After I rebooted and restarted Outlook, the
checking mail notification at the bottom of the screen stopped showing
on short intervals. I downloaded the version 14, 32-bit Outlook
Connector and installed it. After I set up my Hotmail account and
restarted, polling times got worse than in the original situation. The
notification now pops up every 35 seconds or so. I do not have any other
add-ins like BCM running.

I then sent a test note to myself to confirm that Hotmail was set up
properly. Although that send/receive notification continued to pop up
every 35 seconds, the mail did not come through. After about 2 minutes,
I clicked to manually send/receive, and it came through fine. Since I
have a 3G wireless account, test messages from my POP3 account to
Hotmail usually show up 5-10 seconds after they're sent, when I manually
check for mail. That suggests the send/receive notification I'm seeing
every 35 seconds does not mean that my mail is actually being checked.
Any ideas?

Interesting. Now it sounds like your polling time may be OK, but the
notification is whacked. Try turning OFF the pop-up, then exit Outlook,
then reboot. Go back into Outlook (don't enable the pop-up yet), try a
couple test emails, and measure the send/receive interval. Also check
your original send/receive timer setting - what is it now? Did it match
the new interval?

Then restore the pop-up and see what you get.


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