How do I prevent Outlook from doing a send/receive on startup?

[Guest]

How do I prevent Outlook from doing a send/receive on startup? Can't find
the setting anywhere but I know I've seen it before.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

There is no such setting.
This behavior depends on your Outlook version, connection type and automatic
polling settings, none of which you mentioned.

 

[PaulD]

In Outlook 2003, excerpted from the help files

Options dialog box - can be found in the Tools pull-down menu, select
Options...
The Microsoft Outlook Options dialog box is where most Outlook settings can
be specified.

Mail setup tab

E-mail Accounts section

E-mail Accounts- Click the button to go to the dialog box to change the
e-mail accounts and directories.
Send/Receive section

Send immediately when connected check box- Select the check box if you want
Outlook to perform a send/receive as soon as it is connected...

I believe what you are referring to is the Send immediately when connected
check box.
Paul D

 

[_Vanguard_]

How do I prevent Outlook from doing a send/receive on startup? Can't
find
the setting anywhere but I know I've seen it before.

Turn off scheduled mail polling. When setting Outlook to poll every N
minutes, the zeroeth minute is included (thus the mail poll on startup).
Thereafter you will have to remember to do the mail polls yourself.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Guys - I guess the setting I am looking for doesn't exist. I love my
automatic polling. I just wish it wouldn't do it when it first starts up
because thats when all the plugins are starting up too. Outlook is pretty
much immobile for about 30-45 seconds when I first open it up while it
sends/receives and loads 3 different plugins. I'll just have to live with
this I guess.

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

NB: applies only to Outlook 2002 or 2003.