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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Recovering Entourage data now became easy with Entourage Recovery Software

In Macintosh Operating System, Microsoft Entourage database is the single file that stores your e-mail messages, contacts, attachments, notes, tasks, calender entries, projects and other important data. MS Entourage database files are no different from other and therefore, it also faces the heat of corruption and data loss. There can be many reasons for the corruption like virus attack, identity corruption, abrupt system shut down, hardware failure, invalid file header, and internal program errors, etc. When the Mac Entourage database gets corrupt or damaged due to various reasons, it indicates some unexpected error messages like:

• "An error occurred while launching. An error has occurred (-50)"
• "An error occurred while launching. A read/write error has occurred [-40] "
• "An error occurred while attempting to rebuild your database"
• ERROR: Failed to open database [Head]
• "Entourage cannot access your data. To attempt to fix the problem, rebuild your database"
• "Your Office database is damaged"
• "Entourage cannot access your data, rebuild database"
• "Database Daemon Fatal Error"
• "This Identity cannot be opened with this version of Entourage"
• "The action could not be completed. An unknown error (4362) occurred"
• ERROR: Corruption opening database [16003:""]

Whatever be the reason for MS Entourage database corruption or damage, it leaves you in strenuous and dreadful situation. Complete Entourage data comprising user’s personal information, e-mail messages, contacts, attachments, meeting schedules, notes, tasks, and calender entries etc. are no more accessible. Thus database corruption issue may halt the smooth working of entire organization.

Before 2010, there was no third party utility available in the market to solve the corruption or lost data situation in MS Entourage and the users had to suffered from the loss of important data in case of inbuilt database utility unable to work .

But, now corrupted entourage database is no more unresolved situation because Stellar Information Systems Ltd has developed a Entourage database recovery software to solve the any corruption or damage situation of entourage database. This MS Entourage recovery software effectively scan the entire database and recover all items. The process of recovering and rebuilding entourage database is very fast and no special skill is required for using the software as it has been designed with interactive graphical user interface.

Before buying this Entourage Recovery tool, you should evaluate its trial version for data consistency and integrity. If the Microsoft Entourage recovery software recovers the data but does not maintain data consistency and data integrity then it is not worthy. You should check that whether the tool supports your entourage version in which the corruption occurred. It is most suitable and cost-effective Entourage recovery software to rebuild entourage database, and get all of your data back.

Note: Free to evaluate trial version of Entourage Repair software lets the user recovers corrupt or damaged entourage data. However, full version is required to restore or save the recovered MS entourage items.

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