[AccessD] OT: Prevent outlook from receiving email

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Jan 9 14:46:50 CST 2012


Cool guys!  Thanks.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 1/9/2012 1:49 PM, Heenan, Lambert wrote:
> Further digging around...
>
> Tools|Options|Mail Setup Tab
>
> Then click Send/Receive button. Select the account and click the 'Edit' button. The resulting Send/Receive Settings dialog has a check box labeled "Receive mail items".
>
> Clearing that should do the trick.
>
> Now as to where that option might be hidden in in Outlook 2010, I'll leave that to you to discover. :-)
>
> Lambert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Heenan, Lambert
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 1:36 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Prevent outlook from receiving email
>
> Not sure if you can do that John, but you could just set up a rule in Outlook telling it to delete all incoming mail.
>
> Lambert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 1:25 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] OT: Prevent outlook from receiving email
>
> I want to send only, never receive email from my outlook client.  I use Thunderbird but cannot automate that for the send.  I automate Outlook send (and have forever) and just don't need it to receive all my email even though I will never read it in Outlook and will just (from time to time) delete it all from there.
>
> So... is there a way to prevent picking up email in outlook, but allow it to still send?
>
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