Outlook error message

[Brian Turner]

Grrr!! My email is down at present, and I'm getting the "Enter Network Password" every 5 seconds.

While it's great that Outlook warns me of this, the box is prioritised over everything else and anything I type automatically gets typed into the password box.

It's making my PC unusable at present!!

What a stupid little user-unfriendly error - how on earth did Microsoft leave this one running?

[TWD-Tony]

I know exactly what you mean

When this happens (and it has been happening a lot with BT Internet recently) I usually shut down Outlook and then just open it up every 30 minutes or so - then shut it down again... It allows me to continue working

[monaghan]

Click on the down arrow after Send/Recieve to get the menu and select the disable send/recieve from the send/recieve settings sub menu

MS Does seem to know best with these things though - I love the way a Windows update will shutdown all by itself even if an app is open when a normal shutdown would prompt the user to save. Fortunately I've only lost the occasional MySQL query when I've left it unsaved and gone to bed.

[Natkits]

As Tony said, it's been happening a lot lately with BT-Yahoo; I've since stopped using my BT a/c to send/receive and am no longer having the problem.

I'm sure I read about a fix for it somewhere...