Good advice, nothing to worry about unless it persists; from time to time, for diverse reasons, Outlook is not able to connect to a mail servier when trying to send and receive, something it normally does when opened and periodically thereafter.
POP3 is Post Office Protocol, wherein you actually download your messages from the server to your computer. IMAP is newer, in it you download only the headers, your message remains at the server. SMTP or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is what sends your messages out to your mail server, which in turn forwards to the next server in the chain and so on to however many are necessary until it reaches the recipient's server, where it awaits access by te recipient, either Online, with POP3 or with IMAP. Regards, Humberto -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of JM Casey Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 6:27 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] Connectivity to server Outlook 2016 Hello Laura. There are several types of e-mail servers out there, Microsoft Exchange Server being one. Some just require you to set up a username and password; others need you to manually set up port numbers, encryption type and so on. All this stuff clearly has already been done on your system, so it doesn't sound like there's anything to worry about so long as you are getting messages on all your accounts. The pop3 (or is it smtp, I always forget) servers will are designed so you can connect, grab your messages and then disconnect. Usually on modern internet connections this all happens really quickly, but it could take longer if you have a lot of messages or if they contain large attachments. I don't know the specific messages that appear on the screen for each connection type, but it just sounds like JAWS is reading these. If you get an error message on any of your accounts that is consistently happening over a period of a couple of days, contact your e-mail provider. -----Original Message----- From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:jaws-users-list-boun...@jaws-users.com] On Behalf Of Laura Richardson Sent: October 20, 2017 5:20 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: [JAWS-Users] Connectivity to server Outlook 2016 Hello, I'm using Outlook 2016, Jaws 18 & Windows 10 .. I just noticed today when I open an email account, Jaws is telling me things about connectivity to my server. I have several email accounts but Jaws does not give me the same message on each account. *On one email account, after Jaws told me the name of the email account and the information of the email message highlighted Jaws said "connectivity to your server disconnected"; this did not prevent me from sending or receiving email messages. The next time I went to this email account, after announcing the email account and highlighted email message information Jaws said "connectivity to your server trying to connect .. connectivity to server connected to: Microsoft exchange". *On a different email account, after Jaws tells me the name of the email account and the highlighted email message information Jaws says "connectivity to server connected". *On the other email account, I don't get any message regarding connectivity to server. Does anybody know what this is all about? .. Laura For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
