[gsully]

When I open up my Outlook express I get 7 emails, I delete them then close OE. I get a box that says "Receiving message 9 of 10", that never finishes and times out with the below error messages. I open up my OE agian and get the same 7 emails and when I close I get the same box and error messages???? Is this spam should I get a spam blocker, I just recently installed NOD32 and removed Norton Internet Security.


Message number 8 could not be retrieved. Account: 'pop-server.twcny.rr.com', Server: 'pop-server.twcny.rr.com', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800420CD

A time-out occurred while communicating with the server. Account: 'pop-server.twcny.rr.com', Server: 'pop-server.twcny.rr.com', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC19

 

[EAFiedler]

Hi gsully

Welcome to Tech Support Guy Forums!

Have you logged into your ISP's mail server to see the messages?

Try moving your Server Timeout to a longer setting.
In Outlook Express:
Tools > Accounts > (Account Name) > Properties > Advanced tab
Move the slider to at least 2 minutes, if it is already at that amount, move it to 5 minutes.
Apply, Close

Click Send/Receive

Let us know if that makes a difference or not.

 

[kalisun]

If possible see if you can log into your email thru the ISP web site..It looks like you either have a corrupt email that's not downloading properly or a email that's to large for the server mailbox..

If you can log into your email account through your ISP webmail, look at deleteing whichever last 3 emails that are stuck downloading or delete all your email in the inbox..more than likely its someone who might have sent pics or something...most mailboxes can only fit one 3-5 meg file at a time..anything bigger and you'll encounter this type of problems..

Good Luck!

 

[DKTaber]

When I open up my Outlook express I get 7 emails, I delete them then close OE. I get a box that says "Receiving message 9 of 10", that never finishes and times out . . .

Gsully: I have had this happen probably a dozen times over the past 4 years. It's caused by a corrupted e-mail message. The message is virtually always one that contains a large amount of unconverted graphics (the Internet is a text-only medium, so binary files have to be encoded when sent and decoded when received). If the file somehow misses the decoding, you wind up with an all-text file containing a HUGE amount of text which is actually the graphics. I have to log into my account on the ISP's server and delete the message. If I don't do that, no subsequent messages can be downloaded. So in order to get any more messages, you're going to have to zap that one.