Alexander wrote:

The problem with this setting is that it affects both automatic and
manual send/receive. So if I uncheck "send", messages from that
account are not sent, even when I hit the send/receive button. I
could define a second group with the exact same accounts in it, but
with different send/receive settings. However, that would mean that
every server is contacted twice when I manually hit the send/receive
button, which is slow. What I want is simply for Outlook to
automatically retrieve my mails and do nothing else.

No, you want Outlook to retrieve automatically, but send manually, not "do
nothing else".

This can be accomplished, as you observe, by a second send/receive gound
that only sends. And you wouldn't necessarily be contacting your ISP's
server any more than normal because most ISPs'POP and SMTP servers are
disjoint. You have to contact them individually anyway.

I'm afraid I'm very good at ignoring windows that hang around
somewhere in the background among the 30 or so other windows ;-)

But the Task Bar handle flashes. How can you ignorfe that? There is seldom
a good technological solution to a behavioral problem. I can't believe
you're not trainable.
--
Brian Tillman