Auto receive but not send in 2010

[Ulodesk]

I have installed Office 2010 on a new home computer; previously had 2007. I prefer to automatically receive email when I open Outlook, but I want messages I create to stay in the Outbox folder until I manually send them. I had this set up in 2007, and 2003 before that, but am having trouble understanding the set-up options in 2010.



From help files and web searches, it seems that I can only allow both send and receive automatically, so that anything that may be in my Outbox folder gets sent if I automatically receive. I think -- and certainly hope -- I am missing something here. Can someone assist, please?

[Marshal]

Hi,
Can you tell me what was the error code, when you try send email from your outlook 2010?

[Ulodesk]

Thanks, but there is no error code. Perhaps I was unclear. I like having Outlook automatically send and receive when I open it. However, I do not want it to automatically send messages otherwise. I like it to ask me, if I'm closing it with a message or two in the outbox, ""Do you want to exit without sending?" That's useful. But I find that I often complete messages and click send on the message to place it in the Outbox, and then need to look at it again or attach what I forgot to attach. So, again, I don't want it to send automatically, except when I open Outlook at first. I'll send manually (which used to be Alt+C, but that doesn't seem to work in 2010; I'll get that figured out separately).

I can't see from the options how to configure Outlook 2010 to work this way. It has been my standard for over seven years with the two previous versions.

[Marshal]

Hi,

According to my experience with Outlook 2010 , the problem is likely a restriction by your ISP (Internet Service Provider) as many block the normal sendmail port (25), due to their own security concerns. This can be the case even if sending was working recently as some ISP's roll these changes through without warning.

To test if port 25 is blocked, open your command line on your local computer. For windows users, you can access this via start -> run -> cmd.

If port 25 is blocked than you tried to fix this problem : If your ISP is blocking port 25, simply change your SMTP port number to 587. This setting is usually found in the advanced settings of your email client.

[Ulodesk]

Thank you, Marshall. My ISP switched me over from 25 to 587 almost a year ago, so that's not it. Let me put my question differently:

Have the Outlook set-up options changed from 2007 to 2010, or am I just imagining it? In the Advanced settings for Mail, 2010 says "Send and receive settings" and then a checkbox with "Send immediately when connected." Does this also receive immediately when connected or just send?

[Marshal]

Originally Posted by Ulodesk

Thank you, Marshall. My ISP switched me over from 25 to 587 almost a year ago, so that's not it. Let me put my question differently:

Have the Outlook set-up options changed from 2007 to 2010, or am I just imagining it? In the Advanced settings for Mail, 2010 says "Send and receive settings" and then a checkbox with "Send immediately when connected." Does this also receive immediately when connected or just send?

Hi,

Yes, when you connect than outlook send and receive immediately, Outlook Options window open > Advanced and scroll down > Send and receive >Click Send/Receive button.

In the Send/Receive Groups window under Setting for group “All Accounts” check the box Schedule an automatic send/receive every…minutes. It is set to 30 minutes by default and you can change the minutes to whatever you want it to be.

[Ulodesk]

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?

[Marshal]

Originally Posted by Ulodesk

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).

[Ulodesk]

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

[VeazyT]

Dear Ulodesk,

You are not opaque! I completely understand what you were trying to do, because I want to do exactly the same thing! Did you ever solve this problem in OL 2013?

Many thanks and very good luck to you,
VeazyT

[Ulodesk]

I just use F9 manually, though it seems that sometimes Outlook receives a message or two as soon as I open it. I haven't been paying much attention, frankly.

[VeazyT]

Okay, but that means you only get messages coming in--ones you might like to receive, say, every 15 minutes--when you make the effort to receive them.

There are many reasons to want to prevent messages from sending willy-nilly, among them wanting to be sure that you haven't inadvertently sent a confidential message meant for X to Y.

But since you're now using F9, did you know that you can create a "Send All" icon and put it on your OL 2013 Quick Access Toolbar? Click the little Customize gizmo to the right of your QAT icons and click All Commands (where Popular Commands is the default). Scroll all the way down the long list to "Send All" and add it to your toolbar.

Once you've done that, I suppose you could configure Send/Receive All Folders never to send (see the instructions at https://www.msoutlook.info/question/181 way down at the bottom of that page), and you'd accomplish, by a very circuitous route, what you're trying to do. I'm going to try all that myself now!

VeazyT

[Pecoflyer]

@veazy
Hello
is there any particular reason why you follow up on a 5 year old thread?

[VeazyT]

I was looking for an answer to the same question. Then the original poster responded and, hopefully, I was able to make a helpful suggestion to him or her. Is that a problem?

[VeazyT]

Originally Posted by Pecoflyer

@veazy
Hello
is there any particular reason why you follow up on a 5 year old thread?

So you're preventing my solution to Ulodesk's problem from going online? If you read the previous couple of replies, you'll see that he or she responded. I'm sure they'd be interested in the workaround I found.