Microsoft KB Archive/99929

= PC WRmt: Connection Time-Outs =

Article ID: 99929

Article Last Modified on 10/30/2006



This article was previously published under Q99929



SUMMARY
If you have many headers in your mailbox, the connection between version 3.2 of Microsoft Mail Remote for Windows and your postoffice may time out while EXTERNAL.EXE (running at the office from Microsoft Mail for PC Networks) prepares to transmit the headers list.

To increase the time-out limit for Mail Remote for Windows, first confirm that Mail Remote is the current driver.

Then increase the value for ConnectTimeOut in the [SFSREMOTE] section of your MSMAIL.INI file, located in the WINDOWS directory.

This value can be between 60 (the default value) and 999, and represents the number of seconds Mail Remote for Windows will wait before reporting a time-out error.

Contact your mail administrator if problems continue; they might need to adjust a command-line parameter for EXTERNAL.EXE running on your postoffice, setting a -e value to match the number you set for ConnectTimeOut.

Additional query words: 3.20

Keywords: KB99929

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