

The only adjustment I have found to date is "Server Timeouts" in the Internet Email Settings/Advanced menu for Outlook. I am hoping that Microsoft has made those adjustable and that someone in the Forum knows how to do that. I want to try different timeout tolerances for the app's sockets connection and MAPI login, but have not found any settings for that. So the evidence leads me back to the Outlook app. I've been running that script every 5 minutes (via Task Scheduler) for a while now and it has not encountered any timeout issues. Also, I built a PowerShell script that performs the sockets connection to the ISP servers and the MAPI login/logoff dialog. I thought at first that the issue was with my ISP, but I commenced running the Windows Mail app on the same workstation against the same MAPI/SMTP servers and that app has been operating without any issue during this timeframe. The Outlook logs for the inbound processing indicate that the socket connection times out (WSAGETSELECTERROR = 10060). Note that it has not had issues with connecting to SMTP for outbound mail. But in the last couple weeks, Outlook has more and more frequently been unable to connect via MAPI at startup to get inbound mail and synchronize its folders. I have run Outlook against my ISP's e-mail system via MAPI/SMTP for several years without any significant issues. I am trying to diagnose Outlook timeouts with my ISP's MAPI server and wonder whether anyone in the Forum can clue me in to methods (e.g., Registry settings) for manipulating the timeout settings in Outlook's start-up-when it tries to download inbound mail and synchronize folders?
