Is it possible to limit the number of simultaneous (imap) connections that Outlook uses to communicate with servers. As an example, I'm able to limit the number of active connections to 1 or 2 with Thunderbird. I'm not finding the same capability in Outlook though. I'm requesting this in response to the error message that comes from too many simultaneous connections with my Gmail account. By limiting it to 2 on Thunderbird, my account has not had any problems. 
How can I manage this in Outlook? Thanks.