If you still want to set your mind at ease & perform a. Try moving the slider towards the middle or even all the way to the right to see if this resolves the intermittent login failures. Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 180 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. Though in my environment, Outlook 2013’s default of 1 minute seems to be adequate, Gmail (Google) recommends a Server Timeouts setting of: I have managed to do this previously (Even for emails I had deleted from the Gmail s. One last thing I can think of is maybe your “Server Timeouts” slider setting on Outlook’s advanced settings tab is set too short in your system’s environment (Outlook/Windows version, ISP internet connectivity/bandwidth, etc) so Outlook isn’t allowing enough time for Gmail (Google) to respond to the login request & timing out then assumes wrong credentials were sent so asks for your login credentials again. In the next step, select Email Account, enter Your Name, Email Address, and. pst file but I really don’t know as (to my knowledge) I don’t think I’ve ever had a corrupted. First of all launch MS Outlook 2010 and click the office button which is located in the left most corner, now under the Info category you will be able to see the Account Settings option, click the drop down button and choose Add Account as shown in following screenshot.
I would expect Outlook to put up some sort of “.pst error” message upon opening Outlook or attempting to read an email msg previously downloaded and already contained within your. I’m at wits end, and could really use some help.
One other piece of information that might be useful, is that when I try to go to Update Password, it’s unsuccesful, but that might be because this results in getting the SMTP/password prompt. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling Office. Tried using a gmail generated secure password. Tried creating a new profile, including a new IMAP profile. Checked to make sure his gmail account has POP enabled. Tried deleting Outlook references in Credential manager.
I know it’s not a password issue – can login just fine at. Nothing will send – it gets stuck in the Outbox. Starting about a week ago, the account can receive email, but when sending email, it immediately prompts for a password (SMTP). He has several email accounts, but the problematic one is a Gmail account set up as POP3. So, I have a client using Outlook 2016 on Windows 10/1909. I’m new to using the forum, so I hope I’m posting this appropriately – apologies if not.