> Hi,
>
> Forgive me if this is something easy to answer, but everything I find
> pertains to people asking about this from years ago with no real
> answers so I thought I'd post again.
>
> I have verified with both Outlook 2003 SP2 and Outlook 2007 that when
> downloading from multiple e-mail accounts (multiple POP3 accounts)
> simultaeneously the speed drops to a crawl.
>
> Here is a snippet of the OPMLog.log file where I have specifically
> just started the download from one account:
>
> 2007.09.13 14:55:54 POP3 (myserver): [tx] RETR 490
> 2007.09.13 14:55:54 POP3 (myserver): +OK Reading Message
> 2007.09.13 14:55:55 POP3 (myserver): done
> 2007.09.13 14:55:55 POP3 (myserver): [tx] RETR 491
> 2007.09.13 14:55:55 POP3 (myserver): +OK Reading Message
> 2007.09.13 14:55:55 POP3 (myserver): done ...

> Hi,
>
> Forgive me if this is something easy to answer, but everything I find
> pertains to people...

> how many accts are you trying to download? Outlook limits the # of accts it
> will check on a server at a time, to prevent "DOS" attacks.
>
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> On Sep 13, 10:30 pm, "Diane Poremsky" msn.com> wrote:

>> how many accts are you trying to download? Outlook limits the # of accts it
>> will check on a server at a time, to prevent "DOS"...