[gui-talk] setting up outlook to get mail in the background

[Jim Fettgather]

In Outlook 2007, go to Tools, Options, then to the Mail Setup tab, then 
click on the Sennd Recieve button.
Here is where you can set the frequency as to how often Outlook checks for 
mail.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Henrichsen" <paulh52 at pacbell.net>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 2:12 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] setting up outlook to get mail in the background


> Hello. I would like to set up outlook 2007 to get email in the background
> and could use some help<grin>.
>
> I don't want outlook to get the mail when I bring up the program, but 
> wonder
> if there is a way to have email retrieved even if I am not in the program,
> but on my desktop.
>
> I know I have heard people do this, but I can't seem to get it to work.
>
> In the send and receive dialog, I notice two check boxes. One tells 
> outlook
> to get email every X minutes when you are in the program. The other seems 
> to
> say you can get email every X minutes when you are off line.
>
> The first check box makes outlook download email whenever I launch the
> program. I don't really want to do this if I don't have to.
>
> I have tried checking the second box and switching to my desktop with
> outlook running in the background, but it doesn't seem to download 
> anything
> after the 30 minutes it is set for.
>
> Any assistance would be great.
>
>
>
>
>
> Paul Henrichsen
>
> paulh52 at pacbell.net
>
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