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MS Office Forum / Outlook / General MS Outlook Questions / March 2008Stop autoreceive on loading
Hi, I have searched and Googled but I cannot seem to find the info required to stop Outlook 2007 (SP1) doing an automatic send/receive when loading. Sometimes I just want to read/look for an old email without being confronted with new stuff that needs attention. TIA.  SignatureCheers, DrT ** Amateurs built the Ark, but professionals built the Titanic.** > I have searched and Googled but I cannot seem to find the info > required to stop Outlook 2007 (SP1) doing an automatic send/receive > when loading. If you disable your send/receive in the Send/Receive Groups dialogue, Outlook won't perform a send/receive unless you specifically click Send/Receive. While vieing your Inbox, press Alt-Ctrl-S to get that dialogue. If you want Outlok to perform periodic automatic send/receives at all, you'll have to accept the fact that it will always perform one at startup. > Sometimes I just want to read/look for an old email without being > confronted with new stuff that needs attention. Why not just ignore it until you're ready? How difficult is that? SignatureBrian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] >If you want Outlok to perform periodic automatic send/receives at all, >you'll have to accept the fact that it will always perform one at startup. Poo! Considering the market at which Outlook is aimed, I am surprised at the all-or-nothing approach to options. For example, for some folders I would like to keep sent and received messages together and for others, to have the sent mail stored in the sent folder. >Why not just ignore it until you're ready? How difficult is that? C...c...cannot...ig..ig..ignore <g>. Some mails I just to not want to get at midnight. Go figure... SignatureCheers, DrT "If you want to find out what is wrong with democracy, spend five minutes with the average voter." - Winston Churchill > Poo! > > Considering the market at which Outlook is aimed, I am surprised at > the all-or-nothing approach to options. Microsoft tends to be take an either-one-way-or-the-other approach to its options, in my opinion, but for the particular one we're discussing, I don't see how it could be any other way. Since automatic send/receives work on a timer, you need a start time in order to determine when subsequent events occur. If Outlook didn't perform a send/receive at startup, how woule it know when to perform the next send/receive? I suppose a "perform first send/receive xx minutes after startup" option woul work, but I think that's overly complex. > For example, for some folders > I would like to keep sent and received messages together and for > others, to have the sent mail stored in the sent folder. Again, Outlook is complex enough and every addition in complexity increases the opportunity for undesirable interaction between the various threads in Outlook. SignatureBrian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
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