Cant get send settings that I want

[JamesP]

Hello,



About a year ago I installed Office 2010 on my laptop running under Windows 7 Ultimate, and exchange server on our server.


When I pressed send on an email it first went into the OUT BOX where it remained until about 10 minutes had passed when it would then be sent automatically - OR if I needed it to go straight away I could click on “send / receive all folders” when it would be sent immediately. I like this set up.

Last weekend I reinstalled Windows 7 and consequently Office 2010

Now all I can achieve is a situation where the email is sent as soon as I press SEND or by messing with the options, it will stay in the out box for the specified number of minutes without the option of me over riding with an immediate send command.


I want my old setting back!


What am I doing wrong?


Any help will be gratefully acknowledged.

[JamesP]

Has anyone any thoughts on this?

Please help.

[gmayor]

The Outlook send and receive timing options are set from the Send & Receive tab > Send and Receive Groups > Define Send and Receive Groups. In addition you want File > Options > Advanced > Uncheck 'Send immediately when connected'.

Personally I prefer not to allow automatic send and receive as that helps avoid mistakes.

[JamesP]

Thanks for your input gmayor.


That’s exactly how I have it set. But why when clicking on “send receive all folders” nothing happens. In my old set up “send receive all folders” would override the timing of the automatic send and receive and send the email immediately.


I like the short delay – in case it occurs to me that I have made a mistake, but sometimes an immediate send is required.

[gmayor]

I take it there is mail in the outbox? It is quite common for messages to stick in the outbox, especially if you view the contents of the Outbox. You can overcome that with a simple Outlook macro attached to a button on the ribbon e.g. as follows to force send the messages.

Option Explicit
Sub SendAndReceiveAll()
Dim olNS As NameSpace
Dim olSyncs As SyncObjects
Dim olSync As SyncObject
Dim olItems As Items
Dim olItem As MailItem
Dim i As Long

    Set olNS = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
    Set olSyncs = olNS.SyncObjects
    Set olItems = olNS.GetDefaultFolder(4).Items
    For i = olItems.Count To 1 Step -1
        Set olItem = olItems(i)
        olItem.sEnd
        DoEvents
    Next i
    For i = 1 To olSyncs.Count
        Set olSync = olSyncs.Item(i)
        olSync.Start
        DoEvents
    Next
CleanUp:
    Set olItems = Nothing
    Set olItem = Nothing
    Set olNS = Nothing
    Set olSyncs = Nothing
    Set olSync = Nothing
lbl_Exit:
    Exit Sub
End Sub

[JamesP]

Thanks again Graham.

Over the years I have written a huge amount of stuff in Access - macros and code but it never occurred to me to do a macro for this. I was convinced that as it used to work before I reinstalled the operating system it should work now.

I have had experience of a sticky out box.

I will give this a go this evening.

I might try reinstalling Office 10 first though.

[gmayor]

Don't bother re-installing - it will achieve nothing here that a repair wouldn't fix.