Solved How kill popup in Outlook2016 "Could not locate the specified server "

[robls99]

How kill popup in Outlook2016 "Could not locate the specified server "

Recently upgraded from Outlook 2007 to Outlook 2016. I have a Win7-64Pro

Every few minutes I get a popup that says:

"Microsoft Outlook
Could not locate the specified server. Please verify the name is correct."

I am on a home network and don't use a server.
How do I get rid of this?

 

[Snick]

robls99

Turn alerts on or off

1. Select File > Options > Mail.
2. Under Message arrival, select or clear the Display a Desktop Alert check box and then select OK.

How to Turn Off New Message Alerts in Microsoft Outlook ...

Hope this helps!

 

[file3456]

Sounds like Outlook is trying to connect to an email address where the server for that email doesn't exist or the server address is invalid. Since I don't use Outlook I'm not sure.

 

[samuria]

If you dont use a server to get email then why do you need an email client?

 

[robls99]

Thanks guys,

F22Simpilot was right.

Had I clicked on the "Details" of the error message (Duh!) I would have seen that Outlook was complaining about a secondary Gmail.com that I rarely use.

Apparently when migrating from 2007 to 2016 something got scrambled. When I deleted that particular email account the error message went away.

I'll set it up properly tomorrow and hopefully that will be ok.

Everyone have a good week,

Rob

 

[file3456]

Cool. Glad I was able to help. If you would, click the scales icon in my helpful post and leave me some post love. I rarely get any. LOL

 

[robls99]

F22,

I never knew about the scales icon, now I do.

MWAH! ("some post love")

R

 

[file3456]

LOL Yeah, I didn't either until I found it it's how you can "rank up" and look all cool. I guess that's a pretty nifty addition to this board that runs vbulletin. I run my own website forum but it's phpBB-based. I did have an extension that added a like button, but I thought it was too facebook-like and got rid of it. If this forum one day goes Xenforo there will be all kinds of stupid trophies and crap. I can not STAND the Xenoforo platform. But using vbulletin you're more apt to using it since the conversion is easier. And Xenforo is made by the creators of vbulletin.