If I am being dense, I apologize in advance. When the Send/Receive box opens,
I have one group showing which is made up of one POP3 account. The only box
checked on that page is under "When Outlook is online:" Include this group in
Send/Receive (F9). No other boxes on the page are checked.

As I mentioned, if I make sure Disable Scheduled Send/Receive has a
checkmark by it in the Tools--Send/Receive Settings menu dropdown (even
though the box in the S/R groups for "Schedule an automatic send/receive
every XXX minutes" is not checked), it still checks for mail whenever Outlook
is started but does not download it. If I remove the checkmark from Disable
Scheduled Send/Receive in the dropdown menu and then restart Outlook, it
checks for mail and will download any mail there may be.

So I did some experimenting. It seems that if I check Work Offline, close
Outlook and restart (either just Outlook or the computer), then when Outlook
starts up, it won't go online to check and/or download mail regardless of
whether or not I have Disable Scheduled Send/Receive checked. I then changed
the settings in Define Send/Receive Groups, to unchecking anything under
“When Outlook is online” and under “When Outlook is offline” I checked
“Include this group in send/receive(F9).” So now the only time Outlook goes
online is when I want it to.

I think the key here was working online vs. offline. I’d always used online
as a matter of convenience and habit. I’d been using Outlook Express for so
long and this was never an issue with OE6. Not that many months ago I
switched to Outlook to take advantage of the features it has besides email.
So thank you so much for pointing in another direction.

I would rate your post as being helpful because it was, but I am afraid if I
do, then my original question about the calendar problem will not get
answered. Thanks again!


"Brian Tillman" wrote:

Overwhelmed-MT wrote:

I forgot to add that if I don't check Disable Automatic
Send/Receive, it automatically downloads any email whether I want it
to or not. I don't want it to do that every time the computer starts
up.

Then in Outlook's Inbox, press CTRL-ALT-S and remove the option to perform
an automatic send/receive.
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Brian Tillman