Putting account on "Hold"

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Dina

Hi,

I am using: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 on Windows XP Service Pack 2 build 2600, and I have the following question:

My Outlook is configured to check a few accounts, some of them are mailing lists with hundreds of emails waiting after a long weekend. I want to start the send/receive process but I don't want Outlook to check those accounts, only my main account because it will take forever and I don't have time for it now.

How can I configure to "put on hold" the other accounts? I don't want to delete them, just not check them for now.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
 
you can start outlook with the /nopoll switch and select the accounts you
want to check from the send receive button.
 
I think you got this answered in the Outlook Users mailing list. The posted
answer from Steven Teiger was:

Ctrl+Alt+S /Edit/ UNcheck "Include this account" or similar
 
Right, thanks.

----- Original Message -----
I think you got this answered in the Outlook Users mailing list. The posted
answer from Steven Teiger was:

Ctrl+Alt+S /Edit/ UNcheck "Include this account" or similar
 
Thanks,

I did "Start --> Run --> Outlook /nopoll", but I got the following error:

"Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. The command line argument is not valid. Verify the switch you are using."

Where to?

----- Original Message -----
you can start outlook with the /nopoll switch and select the accounts you
want to check from the send receive button.
 
oops... nopollmail is the correct switch.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/






Dina said:
Thanks,

I did "Start --> Run --> Outlook /nopoll", but I got the following error:

"Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. The command line argument is not
valid. Verify the switch you are using."

Where to?

----- Original Message -----
you can start outlook with the /nopoll switch and select the accounts you
want to check from the send receive button.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/






Dina said:
Hi,

I am using: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 on Windows XP Service Pack 2
build 2600, and I have the following question:

My Outlook is configured to check a few accounts, some of them are
mailing
lists with hundreds of emails waiting after a long weekend. I want to
start the send/receive process but I don't want Outlook to check those
accounts, only my main account because it will take forever and I don't
have time for it now.

How can I configure to "put on hold" the other accounts? I don't want to
delete them, just not check them for now.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
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ah.. that's more like it.. thanks.

----- Original Message -----
oops... nopollmail is the correct switch.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/






Dina said:
Thanks,

I did "Start --> Run --> Outlook /nopoll", but I got the following error:

"Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. The command line argument is not
valid. Verify the switch you are using."

Where to?

----- Original Message -----
you can start outlook with the /nopoll switch and select the accounts you
want to check from the send receive button.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/






Dina said:
Hi,

I am using: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 on Windows XP Service Pack 2
build 2600, and I have the following question:

My Outlook is configured to check a few accounts, some of them are
mailing
lists with hundreds of emails waiting after a long weekend. I want to
start the send/receive process but I don't want Outlook to check those
accounts, only my main account because it will take forever and I don't
have time for it now.

How can I configure to "put on hold" the other accounts? I don't want to
delete them, just not check them for now.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Dina said:
I did "Start --> Run --> Outlook /nopoll", but I got the following error:

"Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. The command line argument is not
valid. Verify the switch you are using."

----- Original Message -----
you can start outlook with the /nopoll switch and select the accounts you
want to check from the send receive button.
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It was expected that you knew where the program was. The path to
outlook.exe is not in the PATH environment variable. Most programs won't be
in the PATH. Go find where you installed it and enter the FULL path to the
outlook.exe file; i.e., specify the fully qualified path to the file.
Alternatively, you could open a DOS shell and navigate to wherever you
installed the outlook.exe so the current or working folder you are in is
where the file resides, and then enter "outlook.exe [parms]".

If you want to disable some accounts but have other automatically polled,
select which accounts to disable from the Send/Receive group. Go to:

Tools -> Send/Receive Settings -> Define Send/Receive Groups, pick the group
in which the account is defined, click Edit, select the account, and disable
it (or disable Receive if you still want to Send using that account).
 
FWIW, if the program is registered in windows, you only need the file name -
so outlook /switch will work provided you use a valid switch.


This error means the command argument was not valid (and it wasn't -
nopollmail is the correct switch)
---------------------------
Microsoft Office Outlook
---------------------------
Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. The command line argument is not
valid. Verify the switch you are using.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------


This wording means the program could not be found and I need the full path
if the app exists:
---------------------------
outlok
---------------------------
Windows cannot find 'outlok'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and
then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click
Search.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------


--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/






I did "Start --> Run --> Outlook /nopoll", but I got the following error:

"Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. The command line argument is not
valid. Verify the switch you are using."
Click to expand...

It was expected that you knew where the program was. The path to
outlook.exe is not in the PATH environment variable. Most programs won't
be in the PATH. Go find where you installed it and enter the FULL path to
the outlook.exe file; i.e., specify the fully qualified path to the file.
Alternatively, you could open a DOS shell and navigate to wherever you
installed the outlook.exe so the current or working folder you are in is
where the file resides, and then enter "outlook.exe [parms]".

If you want to disable some accounts but have other automatically polled,
select which accounts to disable from the Send/Receive group. Go to:

Tools -> Send/Receive Settings -> Define Send/Receive Groups, pick the
group in which the account is defined, click Edit, select the account, and
disable it (or disable Receive if you still want to Send using that
account).

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