jrparish said:
many thanks for the reply. I thought the same thing, but when I close the
program then open it several hours later, all the emails I've received in the
interim are in my inbox, in bold as unread. When I close the program, I'm not
minimizing to a desktray tray, I actually click on the "X" and close the
program. Leaving the messages on the server is a good idea and I'll do that.
Did you use the chevron next to the system notification area (where are
the tray icons) to see if the Outlook tray icon was hidden? The "X"
button may not *close* Outlook but merely minimize to a tray icon, and
if you have the taskbar configured to hide some tray icons then you
won't see the tray icon until you expand the tray area by clicking on
the chevron. Use the File -> Exit menu to exit Outlook.
When you click the "X" titlebar icon in Outlook, are there any instances
of outlook.exe still listed in the Processes tab of Task Manager?
Do you use the warm and fuzzy, Fisher-Price fluff version of the login
screen (aka Welcome Screen) which shows icons for each user (which
divulges those user accounts) and also shows a new-mail counter? If so,
that requires the use of a MAPI-compliant e-mail client to go polling
your e-mail accounts to update that new-mail counter. You said that you
were receiving e-mails [in Outlook] while Outlook was closed. Not
possible. So perhaps you have something else that loads Outlook to
retrieve those e-mails, like the Welcome Screen's new-mail counter (but
that means you don't just close Outlook but are also logging out). A
screensaver that shows a new-mail account would do the same thing as the
Welcome Screen with its new-mail counter.
