can't word not keep nagging to check email

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When running Word 2003 by itsellf, it keeps nagging to enter my password to
check my email. I don't have Outlook open. Furthermore it doesn't know the
meaning of Cancel or the Close box. It just keeps on NAGGING like the
mother-in-law.
Married to Word and the mother-in-law Outlook keeps nagging.

Consider renaming Outlook 2003 to "The mother in law". It's more fitting.



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This has nothing to do with Outlook *or* Word but with the configuration of
your connection. You can tell it to remember your password.

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RD said:
When running Word 2003 by itsellf, it keeps nagging to enter my password to
check my email. I don't have Outlook open. Furthermore it doesn't know the
meaning of Cancel or the Close box. It just keeps on NAGGING like the
mother-in-law.
Married to Word and the mother-in-law Outlook keeps nagging.

Consider renaming Outlook 2003 to "The mother in law". It's more fitting.



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Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
This has nothing to do with Outlook *or* Word but with the configuration of
your connection. You can tell it to remember your password.
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So, Remembering a mother in laws name and her nagging are two different
things entirely. Remembering a password and nagging are two differnt things
and are not related.

It takes hitting 3 close boxes to make a single message go away. Try it
sometime. No, neans no. No No. Why?. Because. Because why? Because I said
so.

I don't want my incoming mail password remembered. I do, however have my
outgoing password rememered. My incoming and outging mail servers are
different with different account names and passwords as well. Saves me
having to re-configure if I send email from work and home.
 
I think you've lost me there, but then I don't use Outlook. Perhaps you'd
better ask in an Outlook NG.

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Words into Type
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Your "email service" will nag for the password ONLY if something
email-enabled is attempting to check your email.

If it's not Outlook, what else could it be? Outlook express? A virus?

Outlook is sometimes difficult to quit: you might like to go into Task
Manager and see if Outlook.exe is still running.


So, Remembering a mother in laws name and her nagging are two different
things entirely. Remembering a password and nagging are two differnt things
and are not related.

It takes hitting 3 close boxes to make a single message go away. Try it
sometime. No, neans no. No No. Why?. Because. Because why? Because I said
so.

I don't want my incoming mail password remembered. I do, however have my
outgoing password rememered. My incoming and outging mail servers are
different with different account names and passwords as well. Saves me
having to re-configure if I send email from work and home.
Click to expand...

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John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410
 
Thanks, John. This latest reply left me speechless since I've never heard of
an "incoming password." Obviously I lead a sheltered life.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Hi Suzanne:

Well, I used a heap of words to indicate that I too am speechless on RD's
problem :-)

In Outlook, you can have multiple email servers set up (I have four...).
For each server (known as an "account" in Outlook) you have a sending server
and a receiving server. For all but the smallest ISPs, these are separate
computers at the ISP end.

For most ISPs, the sending server is SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol)
and sends on TCP/IP Port 25. The incoming server (which is what most people
would think of as their "mail server") can be a wide variety of things.
POP3 is most common on dialup, and IMAP is most common for those with the
luxury of a broadband connection.

RD obviously has a laptop he takes to work. So he has set up at least two
accounts: a "Home" account, and a "Work" account. Apparently he has set up
each of them to prompt him for the incoming server each time Outlook checks
for new mail. I seriously would not do this: being asked for a server name
and password every five minutes would get old very quickly!

However, the answer to his question is "What's asking for new email every
five minutes?" Because as you said, it sure as hell isn't Word :-)

However, to answer his "problem", I suggest that he looks in the Outlook
Help for information on "Send/Receive Groups". If he has a "Work" group and
a "Home" group, he can set up all four of his servers in each of them. Then
all he needs to do is decide which group should be running, depending on
where he is.

Outlook has perhaps the most clunky and cumbersome and utterly brain-dead
implementation of this that I think I have ever seen :-) Any time you move
a Windows box anywhere, you have to re-configure EVERYTHING that accesses
resources outside your computer. I guess it keeps IT professionals in
work...

On my Apple laptop, it's a single click. I have "Locations" set up for
"Home", "Work", and "Hotel". Ummm... There's one here labelled "Beth" too:
it gets used in Los Angeles roughly once a year on the way too or from the
Summit :-)

Anyway: I open the laptop and choose the appropriate location: one click.
Every single network and email configuration is instantly switched. All of
the severs, ports, passwords and mail accounts all switch in a single click
without a reboot.

Why doesn't Microsoft do that???

Cheers


Thanks, John. This latest reply left me speechless since I've never heard of
an "incoming password." Obviously I lead a sheltered life.
Click to expand...

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