All of the information you have provided seems to be in order.



In all attempts to reproduce your scenario have come up with no answers on my end.

This is what i have done:

Using a laptop, Configured an Exchange account profile to my work exchange account.

Within the same profile, connected 2 POP accounts and 2 POP SMTP accounts. The SMTP are for me to use email alias i have configured.

Attempted to Disconnected the Exchange account. This could not be done without removing internet connectivity. So i selected "Work Offline".

This disabled the Exchange Account and the POP accounts as well.

See if you can toggle the work offline feature to see if your Outlook reverted to an Offline state after you leave your office.

Keep me posted,

I do not fully get it...

You suggest to toglle "Work off-line", but then my POP/SMTP will not work for sure (just like you mentioned).

In my case the Exchange server is not reachable in case I leave the office. I can perfectly be connected to "the Internet" without having access to exchange. I suppose that your Exchange server is publically available, correct?

I've followed the following strategy:
* Put Outlook off-line (PC remains connected to internet)
* Try to send a mail from the POP account
* Send it
* The mail now remains in my outbox, which is to be expected.
No message is shown at this moment, it is just put in outbox.
* Explicitely click on "Send & Receive". The mail now gets sent without problems.
* Toggle on-line
* Create a mail to another new address, still using the same POP account.
* Send it
* Now immediately the message comes that outlook needs to be connected in order to send.

:-(