What's the best (safest, easiest) way of disabling Outlook so that it
won't retrieve email?

I am in the process of moving to new computers. In moving Outlook
over, I sometimes need to have it running on both machines, but I
don't want the old one retrieving email once I get the PST moved over
to the new one.

I don't want to delete the email accounts until I am sure that I have
all of the settings right and working on the new computers.

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Using Outlook 2000 on Windows 2000

you could set it to 'Work Offline'

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Laura Rooke
MVP - Mobile Devices

LurfysMa <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> What's the best (safest, easiest) way of disabling Outlook so that it
> won't retrieve email?

If Work Offline isn't to your liking, you can remove receiving from the
Send/Receive group.
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Brian Tillman

On Wed, 9 May 2007 12:03:35 -0700, "Laura" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>you could set it to 'Work Offline'

How do I do that?

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Using Outlook 2000 on Windows 2000

On Wed, 9 May 2007 16:25:34 -0400, "Brian Tillman"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>LurfysMa <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> What's the best (safest, easiest) way of disabling Outlook so that it
>> won't retrieve email?
>
>If Work Offline isn't to your liking,

Any reason that it might not be?

>you can remove receiving from the Send/Receive group.

How do I do that?

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Using Outlook 2000 on Windows 2000

On Wed, 09 May 2007 10:58:49 -0700, LurfysMa <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>What's the best (safest, easiest) way of disabling Outlook so that it
>won't retrieve email?
>
>I am in the process of moving to new computers. In moving Outlook
>over, I sometimes need to have it running on both machines, but I
>don't want the old one retrieving email once I get the PST moved over
>to the new one.
>
>I don't want to delete the email accounts until I am sure that I have
>all of the settings right and working on the new computers.

I tried Tools | Options | Mail services | uncheck the "Check for new
mail on" boxes. This didn't work. Mail still came in.

I tried Tools | Options | Internet E-mail | uncheck the "Check my
local network connections for new mail..." box. This seems to work as
long as I don't click on the Send/Receive button. Unless there is some
reason this is not a good solution, it has the advantage that I can
control whether I get email or not with the click of a button.



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Using Outlook 2000 on Windows 2000

"LurfysMa" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Wed, 09 May 2007 10:58:49 -0700, LurfysMa <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>>What's the best (safest, easiest) way of disabling Outlook so that it
>>won't retrieve email?
>>
>>I am in the process of moving to new computers. In moving Outlook
>>over, I sometimes need to have it running on both machines, but I
>>don't want the old one retrieving email once I get the PST moved over
>>to the new one.
>>
>>I don't want to delete the email accounts until I am sure that I have
>>all of the settings right and working on the new computers.
>
> I tried Tools | Options | Mail services | uncheck the "Check for new
> mail on" boxes. This didn't work. Mail still came in.
>
> I tried Tools | Options | Internet E-mail | uncheck the "Check my
> local network connections for new mail..." box. This seems to work as
> long as I don't click on the Send/Receive button. Unless there is some
> reason this is not a good solution, it has the advantage that I can
> control whether I get email or not with the click of a button.
>
>
>
> --
> Using Outlook 2000 on Windows 2000

Choose Work offline from the File drop down menu.

LurfysMa <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> How do I do that?

Since you said you're using Outlook 2000, there isn't a send/receive group,
per se, but you should be able to modify the account setting so that the
account doesn't download messages. I don't have Outlook 2000 available at
the moment to check which menus or options to examine.
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Brian Tillman