I recently faced a strange situation where my mail server was showing over 700 emails but Microsoft Outlook was failing to download them with timeout error.最近，我所面临的一个奇怪的情况下，我的邮件服务器是显示超过700名的电子邮件，但Microsoft Outlook的是未能将它们下载与超时错误。 The problem was that it wasn’t downloading even a single email.问题是，它没有下载，甚至一个单一的电子邮件。 Here’s how I solved it.在这里的我如何解决它。

First I checked that I am really able to connect by connecting using telnet from command line (cmd prompt).首先，我检查了，我真的能够连接连接使用Telnet从命令行（ cmd提示） 。 I found that I could list as well as retrieve emails while directly using the POP3 protocol.我发现我可以列表，以及检索电子邮件，而直接利用POP3协议。 I restarted Outlook but it didn’t help. i重新启动Outlook中，但它并没有帮助。 Somehow Outlook was getting stuck, probably in an infinite loop.在某种程度上前景越来越坚持，大概会在一个无限循环。 So I brought up good old Outlook Express, configured it to download the emails and let it go.所以我带来了良好的旧的Outlook Express ，配置它来下载电子邮件，让它去。 It downloaded them in a flash.它下载了他们在一个闪光。 After that I tried Microsoft Ooutlook again with some new emails and it downloaded fine.之后，我尝试微软ooutlook再次与一些新的电子邮件和下载它的罚款。