How to resolve Entourage Error 3259 “An operation on the server timed out”

A popular email client for Mac is Entourage. Manufactured by Microsoft, Entourage has tons of features such as emails, notes, contacts, calendar and project manager. Entourage is quite popular as a reliable personal information manager. Entourage has also been designed to work as a client for Microsoft Exchange.

When MS Entourage user tries to send or receive any email an error is encountered that says:

“An operation on the server timed out. The server may be down, overloaded, or there may be too much net traffic.

Error: 3259”

Cause:

This error message keeps popping up time and again making it difficult for Entourage users to send or receive any mail. A number of reasons are behind this error. Some of them include:

1.A bad SMTP configuration will result in this error at the time of receiving emails.
2.If an incorrect port number is set for outgoing connections, it will result in error 3259.
3.It can also be triggered by authentication problems by the SMTP.
4.Another factor causing this could be server error.
5.Corruption in the Entourage application can generate error 3259.

Solution:

To carry out Entourage repair follow these steps:

1.Ensure that you are connected to the internet. Try to sign in to your account using the web based application.
2.Change the SMTP port to 587.
For Entourage 2008
1.Start Entourage.
2.Click Tools -> Accounts. Double click the account you want to set up. Go to Sending mail section, choose Click here for advanced sending options.
3.Check the Override default SMTP port check box and make the port value 587.
4.Clear Outlook and try to send an email.
For Entourage 2004
1.Start Entourage.
2.Click Tools -> Accounts.
3.Select account, click Edit.
4.Go to Account Settings tab. In the Sending mail section, type mail.your-domain-name.com in the SMTP server field.
5.Choose Click here for advanced sending options.
6.Check the Override default SMTP port check box and make the port value 587.
7.To close the Edit Account window, click the small box in the upper left corner. Click Ok.

If this solution does not help, you can create a new user account. However, if it is a case of Entourage corruption, then you need an Entourage Repair tool. You can also try to rebuild Entourage database using the inbuilt Database Utility. But if that does not help, third party Entourage Repair tools can help and recover all the user data hassle free.

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Entourage Database Repair when preferences of the application are damaged

Entourage is quite similar to Microsoft Outlook and is a popular email client for Mac OS X users. This personal information manager is a part of the MS Office suite for Apple users. The latest version of Entourage application is Entourage 2008 was released on Jan 2008.

You may at times face the problem with Entourage application that it quits unexpectedly. This makes it difficult to access data from your Mac application and creates a great possibility of database corruption. When facing unexpected behaviour from the application, one needs to look for Entourage Database Repair options.

One such problem often encountered by Entourage users is that the application sometimes quits unexpectedly and gives an error message that says the database is corrupt or damaged. The probelm can be the result of a number of reasons.

Cause:

This behaviour can be the result of damage or corruption in the Mac OS X preferences of the application. Another factor that can trigger the unexpected quitting of the application can be corruption in the database Identity.

Resolve:

If the problem is caused by the corruption in preferences, you can restore them through the following steps:

1.Open preferences folder.
2.Select Microsoft Entourage preferences file.
3.Move these selected files to desktop and see if the Entourage application is now working fine.

If the problem still lingers, then you can restore the database from the most recent backup. However, a backup is not always available and in such situations you can rebuild Entourage database. Microsoft's free utility 'Database Utility' helps to rebuild the Entourage database and performs efficacious Entourage Database Repair.

But if none of the resolve is able to help, then it is time to seek the aid of a commercial third pary Entourage Database Repair Tool. These third party utilities can successfully recover all the cardinal data from the Entourage application such as emails, address book, notes, calendar entries etc. A reliable tool is “Stellar Phoenix Entourage Recovery”. This is a completely read only software that can recover the lost mails and folders.

The software restores all the Entourage data from the RGE file for Entourage 2008 and 2004. This adroid Entourage database repair tool shows the preview of the objects it can recover in a three view structure. This dexterous tool is compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard and 10.4 Tiger.

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