Comments on: Outlook 2010 contacting the server

By: doworthy

doworthy — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:00:40 +0000

I just started getting the “contacting the server” message (which
COMPLETELY froze Outlook until manually forced to close) today after
using Office/Outlook 2007 and Windows XP for several years. I tried
various suggestions without any luck. I realized my C: drive containing
the operating system was dangerously full. Since allocating more space
to that partition, I haven’t received the error. (Hopefully my
experience will spark an idea that will help someone else.)

By: marek11

marek11 — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:30:02 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for your reply Sixball

the message appears randomly throughout the day. However I think I have just fixed it, or to be more precise I’ve got round it.

I changed my setting for Compose Messages in HTML to Compose Messages in rtf and now the warning doesn’t appear. I inferred from reading some forums that it is something to do with HTML

I can only assume that I have up until today been using rtf and perhaps accidentally changed it to HTML.

As to why this has fixed it is another question.

Thanks,

Marek.

By: sixball

sixball — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:14:27 +0000

Does this message appear when you first open outlook? or does it give the message randomly throughout the day?

We’d need a bit more info to be able to give you a solid answer. Based on what you have shared, it sounds like you should edit/check the pop3 server settings in outlook.