BROKEN: Do not show this dialog box during send and receive

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K. Shier

OL 2002

I have the box checked.

If I am working in another application and there is an error transferring
email while OL is running in the background, the send/receive dialog pops up
in front! (I have my email auto send/receive set on 1 minute -- I've had to
close this fricking dialog 3 times while writing this message!)

SUPER ANNOYING!!!!!!!!

Anyone know how to fix this problem?

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I use MS products all day long and I must say Outlook and OE are the two
most annoying apps by far*. That's ironic, because OL at least is supposed
to be a users' main communications/scheduling 'switchboard', yet its
behavior is so annoying/distracting that I rarely leave it running except
for the exact moments when I am sending or receiving email.

MS QA sorely needs to institute a 'Real world users in real world
situations' division, because their Office products often make me wonder:
"Have these guys ever even BEEN in an office?!"

[ed.: this rant truncated for your reading pleasure]

(*Visual Studio and WinXP itself are probably tied for second.)
 
K. Shier said:
I have the box checked.

If I am working in another application and there is an error
transferring email while OL is running in the background, the
send/receive dialog pops up in front!
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Of course, I would expect it to pop up if there is an error.
(I have my email auto
send/receive set on 1 minute -- I've had to close this fricking
dialog 3 times while writing this message!)
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Most frequently, the advice I've seen says one minute is too short of an
interval. Five minutes would be a better choice. The issue with one minute
is that Outlook can take longer than one minute for it to do some of its
"housekeeping" and if you start it on a send/receive cycle when it's not
finished with its prior cycle, you can induce errors. It can get confused.
 
Brian Tillman said:
Of course, I would expect it to pop up if there is an error.
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Sorry, not me! In my book, "Don't show" means "Don't show"!

(MS and I disagree on a lot of idiot-level semantic points like this... :( )

Overall, if I am working in another app and I have OL minimized, I don't
want to hear one PEEP out of it, except for appointment reminders.
Most frequently, the advice I've seen says one minute is too short of an
interval. Five minutes would be a better choice. The issue with one minute
is that Outlook can take longer than one minute for it to do some of its
"housekeeping" and if you start it on a send/receive cycle when it's not
finished with its prior cycle, you can induce errors. It can get
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confused.

I'll give that a go.

Thanks! =)
 
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