From you indicate, Outlook 2010 offers no way to do what I want:

1. send and receive when I open Outlook
2. receive automatically while Outlook is open, but
3. send only manually except on start-up

Is this correct?

Hi ,

No, It is not correct ! have you seen images ?
It shows that how to configure send & receive email setting automatically while Outlook is open and you also Schedule an automatic send/receive every X minutes (specify the time).

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Hello, Marshall. Yes, I did view the images. I appreciate your help, but I'm clearly missing something. I'm sorry to seem so opaque, and it may seem that I'm making a mountain of a mole hill, since all that is involved is a simple press of F9 to send and receive, which is what I'm doing, pending resolution of this matter.

You have checked "Automatic send/receive every X minutes," as well as "Send immediately when connected." Here is the issue:

"Send immediately when connected" presumably means only that and not "send and receive immediately when connected, which is what I am looking for." For this reason, I take it, I must then check "Automatic send/receive every X minutes." But, as I have said, I only wish to have automatic receive at startup.

However, if I set, let's say, 120 minutes for send/receive, that presumably means that upon startup, the clock starts ticking. So, I still have to perform a manual receive upon start up, but at least I have two hours before Outlook automatically kicks in a send of whatever is have sitting in the outbox.

I can live with this; again, I'm fairly sure the settings were different in the previous verions, and I'm trying to clarify what's up with this one.

Cordially,
Ulodesk