How do I turn off Outlook's receiving of the mail?

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I need to turn the automatic feature of Outlook receiving emails off.

I have another program that receives my emails for spam reasons and filters
them and I don't want Outlook to also try to access them from the web.

Thanks
 
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margemarge said:
I need to turn the automatic feature of Outlook receiving emails off.

I have another program that receives my emails for spam reasons and
filters them and I don't want Outlook to also try to access them from
the web.

Thanks
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I'm a bit confused - why would you even configure Outlook to check this
mailbox at all if you don't want it to receive mail?

Re your actual question - post your version of Outlook so we can try to
help. Always include that info when you post in here.
 
Uncheck the send/receive options then. Don't have Outlook poll for mail nor send/receive automatically.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
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After furious head scratching, margemarge asked:

| I need to turn the automatic feature of Outlook receiving emails off.
|
| I have another program that receives my emails for spam reasons and
| filters them and I don't want Outlook to also try to access them from
| the web.
|
| Thanks
 
Where are those options is I guess what I should have asked. I know I need to
turn them off and in OE I know where to do it but in Outlook, I do not know
where it is.
m
 
F1 is your friend.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, margemarge asked:

| Where are those options is I guess what I should have asked. I know I
| need to turn them off and in OE I know where to do it but in Outlook,
| I do not know where it is.
| m
|
| "margemarge" wrote:
|
|| I need to turn the automatic feature of Outlook receiving emails off.
||
|| I have another program that receives my emails for spam reasons and
|| filters them and I don't want Outlook to also try to access them
|| from the web.
||
|| Thanks
 
I just don't want it to receive mail directly. I am using Mailwasher and the
mail goes in there first, then what is spam is kicked out so I can get those
"friends" who write to me.

When I set this up from Outlook Express there is no problem for that program
has easy ways to set up receiving mail. That is what I have for my husband.
However, with Out look, I am missing something here. I am not scratching my
head furiously... I am just pretty sick of not being able to figure out this
program and thought someone would have an answer...

guess not. :(

mabyn
 
Tools->Send/Receive.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, margemarge asked:

| If I had found the answer I would not be asking...
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| F1 is your friend.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, margemarge asked:
||
||| Where are those options is I guess what I should have asked. I know
||| I need to turn them off and in OE I know where to do it but in
||| Outlook, I do not know where it is.
||| m
|||
||| "margemarge" wrote:
|||
|||| I need to turn the automatic feature of Outlook receiving emails
|||| off.
||||
|||| I have another program that receives my emails for spam reasons and
|||| filters them and I don't want Outlook to also try to access them
|||| from the web.
||||
|||| Thanks
 
I would suggest you ask Mailwasher:
http://www.mailwasher.net/faq.php

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, margemarge asked:

| Thanks, I'll ask someone else.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Tools->Send/Receive.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, margemarge asked:
||
||| If I had found the answer I would not be asking...
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| F1 is your friend.
||||
|||| --ÂÂ
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, margemarge asked:
||||
||||| Where are those options is I guess what I should have asked. I
||||| know I need to turn them off and in OE I know where to do it but
||||| in Outlook, I do not know where it is.
||||| m
|||||
||||| "margemarge" wrote:
|||||
|||||| I need to turn the automatic feature of Outlook receiving emails
|||||| off.
||||||
|||||| I have another program that receives my emails for spam reasons
|||||| and filters them and I don't want Outlook to also try to access
|||||| them from the web.
||||||
|||||| Thanks
 
In case you are interested:
Outlook
Select Tools, then Options from the main menu.

Click on the Internet E-mail tab.

Uncheck the option labeled Check my local network connections for new mail
every ( ) minute(s).

That was all I needed. I was able to turn off the incoming mail. Yes!
m
 
margemarge said:
I just don't want it to receive mail directly. I am using Mailwasher
and the
mail goes in there first, then what is spam is kicked out so I can
get those
"friends" who write to me.

When I set this up from Outlook Express there is no problem for that
program
has easy ways to set up receiving mail. That is what I have for my
husband.
However, with Out look, I am missing something here. I am not
scratching my
head furiously... I am just pretty sick of not being able to figure
out this
program and thought someone would have an answer...
Click to expand...

If Mailwasher cannot run continuously in the background as an e-mail
monitor and use its own rules to delete spam (or tag it so you can use
your own rules to decide what to do with it) then you need to find a
better anti-spam program, like SpamPal (which is free). As I recall,
somewhere buried down in Mailwasher's menus is the option to run rules
on the mails that it retrieves. I use SpamPal for tagging suspect
mails and Magic Mail Monitor as the e-mail monitor/notifier that
includes rules to handle the tagged mails. Sounds similar to what you
want to do with Mailwasher.

In Outlook, and depending on your version the menu navigation may
differ, go under "Tools -> Send/Receive Settings -> Define
Send/Receive Groups". At that point, you can disable automatic
polling for all accounts which means you will have to poll manually.
 
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