Stephen1
Senior Member
- Outlook version
- Outlook 2016 64 bit
- Email Account
- Outlook.com (as MS Exchange)
Diane
Thanks for all your help in setting up my Outlook.com in Outlook 2013 using EAS. Calendar and Contacts seems to sync fine between the two.
I’m left with one major problem in that some emails arrive immediately but many others are delayed by 10, 15, 25 minutes etc (at random). This makes the system pretty much unusable as an email account.
I have tested this by sending many emails from other accounts to myself – they appear in Outlook.com webmail immediately, but not in Outlook 2013 (sometimes they do, sometimes they don't).
I mentioned this on another thread and you said that some people do experience problems with EAS and it can be buggy.
There are numerous threads on this topic on Microsoft Answers, but no definitive solutions.
I am starting with a fresh email account but I am now debating whether I can use Outlook.com for email – I want to but these problems with Outlook.com in Outlook 2013 has lowered my confidence in it.
I would prefer not to use Gmail as I like the EAS solution for Email/Calendar/Contacts sync (I don't really want to go down the paid Google Apps route for Calendar/Contacts sync with Outlook). Also, from what I read Gmail in Outlook is not without some of its own complications (getting labels/folders in sync etc). Besides I have a FirstNameLastName@outlook.com address which I don't have in Gmail.
Questions:
1) Is there any way to establish with Microsoft whether this is a known bug in the EAS Outlook 2013 implementation and if/when it will be fixed? If I knew there was a plan to fix it I could put up with the problem for a few months.
2) Do you have any other ideas as to solutions? I have seen removing/adding the EAS Outlook.com account as being proposed by some (it helps a few but not others), although I am somewhat wary of doing that having got the Calendar and Contacts part of it in sync.
Many thanks.
Thanks for all your help in setting up my Outlook.com in Outlook 2013 using EAS. Calendar and Contacts seems to sync fine between the two.
I’m left with one major problem in that some emails arrive immediately but many others are delayed by 10, 15, 25 minutes etc (at random). This makes the system pretty much unusable as an email account.
I have tested this by sending many emails from other accounts to myself – they appear in Outlook.com webmail immediately, but not in Outlook 2013 (sometimes they do, sometimes they don't).
I mentioned this on another thread and you said that some people do experience problems with EAS and it can be buggy.
There are numerous threads on this topic on Microsoft Answers, but no definitive solutions.
I am starting with a fresh email account but I am now debating whether I can use Outlook.com for email – I want to but these problems with Outlook.com in Outlook 2013 has lowered my confidence in it.
I would prefer not to use Gmail as I like the EAS solution for Email/Calendar/Contacts sync (I don't really want to go down the paid Google Apps route for Calendar/Contacts sync with Outlook). Also, from what I read Gmail in Outlook is not without some of its own complications (getting labels/folders in sync etc). Besides I have a FirstNameLastName@outlook.com address which I don't have in Gmail.
Questions:
1) Is there any way to establish with Microsoft whether this is a known bug in the EAS Outlook 2013 implementation and if/when it will be fixed? If I knew there was a plan to fix it I could put up with the problem for a few months.
2) Do you have any other ideas as to solutions? I have seen removing/adding the EAS Outlook.com account as being proposed by some (it helps a few but not others), although I am somewhat wary of doing that having got the Calendar and Contacts part of it in sync.
Many thanks.