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No more Mails from connected accounts like gmail since a few days.
I am using the connected accounts in office 365 for the last 2 years. Had no major issues with it until recently, besides the fact that email is refreshed every hour and there is no way you can change that. However, since last Friday one of our accounts stopped syncing. Reason unknown. Even office 365 support is not very familiar with the feature, cannot provide a reason for this and their only suggestion is to delete and recreate the connected account. Did that and still only 1 in 5 emails was syncing, the other 4 in 5 were not. Since the new connected account didn't show the option Leave messages on server - it's selected by default and you need to make a trick to show it, I deleted again the connected account and unchecked the Leave messages on server option, thinking this might fix the issue. So the faulty code in connected accounts, went to transfer again 1 in 5 messages in Office 365 but deleted all, including those not transfered!!! So lost tens of emails with no easy way to recover, any search in Office 365 data revealed nothing.
The best part is that their support manager, claims that this option does not delete POP3 emails etc., based solely on his own wrong interpretation of a MS document, without even testing the feature.
Of course it only gets better. Today my account is also not syncing properly, the pattern seems to be any email with an attachment bigger than 400KB or so, is not syncing.
So, there is definitely a serious issue affecting connected accounts. Since support is not helpful at all, and we had also recent issues of not been able to send any emails for 5 days, we are planning to stop using Office 365 Email ASAP. Extremely sad for somebody using MS products for 27 years and a MS Partner company but true.
Nino_Bilic can you please check on this issue?
- Marco KodricOct 23, 2017Copper Contributor
Not sure if anyone has take care of this issue, but the sync status is now OK again and Mails will be delivered at least for the last hours. I will keep an eye on this today. thx
- Marco KodricOct 16, 2017Copper ContributorThank you Emmanouil for sharing your experience and Thank you Vasily for having a look into this issue.
For example... Other accounts in this tenants do not have these problems....- Emmanouil GimissisOct 17, 2017Copper Contributor
Thanks for your reply. However still have no reason for this happening and no help at all from MS. Not receiving emails from clients etc. is a very serious matter, even worse if there is no info at all at what is the cause and the path to resolve the issue.
- Zoltan BagyonOct 17, 2017Steel Contributor
I've experienced something similar in the past but on the other side, when Exchange Online mailboxes were added to Gmail via pop3/smtp.
In that case the problem was that connection attempts from the Google datacenters to the MS datacenters often resulted in timeouts due to the complexity of their network setup I assume. It was very frustrating as it worked well for most of the time, yet users felt it unreliable because of the occasional issues.
What I've found as a workaround was replacing the 'general' server names to the regional ones (got from a single nslookup query), e.g. using outlook-emeacenter2.office365.com directly instead of the general outlook.office365.com. Seemed like gaining the time with that was enough to avoid timeouts.
I'm not sure this story has any relevance regarding the issue you are experiencing now, but it may worth to give it a try.