Is outlook express 6 sleeping?

I use outlook express 6 to access newsgroups.
If I don't use it for a short while but still minimized on my DSL
connection.
Sometimes when clicking on a newsgroup nothing happens and at times it
says it's timeout or cannot access server or just nothing happens until I
click on another newsgroup, then all seems fine.
Does outlook express go to sleep and needs to be woken up?

Mac

A Time-out, or cannot access server may, or may not, be an OE issue, but try
this to see if it helps.

Tools | Options | Read. Uncheck: Get XXX headers at a time.

Tools | Accounts | News | Properties | General. Check: Include this account
when checking for messages.

Tools | Options | General. Check: Check for messages every XX minutes and
set it for 10 or 15 minutes.

If you are only using OE for news, this may give it a kick in the butt to
keep it awake.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Mac" wrote in message
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I use outlook express 6 to access newsgroups.
If I don't use it for a short while but still minimized on my DSL
connection.
Sometimes when clicking on a newsgroup nothing happens and at times it
says it's timeout or cannot access server or just nothing happens until I
click on another newsgroup, then all seems fine.
Does outlook express go to sleep and needs to be woken up?

Mac

News servers are designed for intermittent activity. You connect,
download some headers, read a bit, download some articles, read a bit,
etc. You keep an open connection during this, so as to avoid the
overhead of establishing a connection for each article. But the server
has to eventually disconnect idle sessions to avoid overload. This
tends to be about a 5 to 10 minute idle time. The news server
administrator sets this disconnect time.

So what you are seeing is normal.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Mac" wrote in message
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I use outlook express 6 to access newsgroups.
If I don't use it for a short while but still minimized on my DSL
connection.
Sometimes when clicking on a newsgroup nothing happens and at times it
says it's timeout or cannot access server or just nothing happens
until I
click on another newsgroup, then all seems fine.
Does outlook express go to sleep and needs to be woken up?

Mac

"Mac" escreveu na mensagem
...
I use outlook express 6 to access newsgroups.
If I don't use it for a short while but still minimized on my DSL
connection.
Sometimes when clicking on a newsgroup nothing happens and at times it
says it's timeout or cannot access server or just nothing happens until I
click on another newsgroup, then all seems fine.
Does outlook express go to sleep and needs to be woken up?

Mac

"Mac" ...
I use outlook express 6 to access newsgroups.
If I don't use it for a short while but still minimized on my DSL
connection.
Sometimes when clicking on a newsgroup nothing happens and at times it
says it's timeout or cannot access server or just nothing happens until I
click on another newsgroup, then all seems fine.
Does outlook express go to sleep and needs to be woken up?

Mac