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Originally Posted by JeremyNicoll
You said:
"2 The volume of email sent to this outlook address is absolutely minimal (usually less than 1 a day and no attachments)"
which covers current traffic arriving at the server. But was there already contents - perhaps imported from somewhere-else - there? (If so, possibly syncing that to something might cause more traffic than you're expecting.)
Another thought is whether the throttling is per session (which is presumably just to your new account) or whether it's by connecting IP address - which could include requests from other machines on the same LAN.
Also, you mention three clients. Are all three simultaneously polling the server?
In the error message you first quoted, there was this text:
(consecutive errors: 10)
Were these consecutive errors more instances of the one you mentioned, or something else?
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It's worth mentioning that I've had the xxx@outlook email address for about 5 years but, until the last fortnight I only ever accessed the email through webmail (and not email client). This email address is only used for incoming email limited to very small notifications with no attachments at all. Over the 5 years it will have received just a few dozen tiny emails. I normally only use
xxx@outlook.com for incoming mail and not for sending email.
I only started using email clients for this address less than a fortnight ago. The only emails arriving inwards during this period have been notifications from Microsoft saying "New app(s) have access to your data". So the
xxx@outlook.com mailbox is pretty much empty and there's nothing to sync most of the time. For all practical purposes it's virtually unused. All the activity on my personal email is managed by another 20-odd email accounts which is where my "real" email actually arrives.
I've had all my email clients working simultaneously polling those 20-odd email accounts for years without the slightest problem. Since adding this
xxx@outlook.com as an additional account, all the remainder have to continue to work perfectly.
In the last 24 hours I've had no incoming mail at all to
xxx@outlook.com[ yet it's generated error messages:
"Error (Request is throttled. Suggested Backoff Time: 299203 milliseconds)".
Meanwhile all my other email accounts with vastly larger traffic and email size don't show the slightest sign of any problem at all.
I am totally mystified how zero traffic for 24 hours can still generate the error messages.