I have a user with Outlook 2003 installed and an account on our internal Exchange server. I do not want this computer to download email from the server until the user manually selects Send / Receive.
- "Tools" > "Send/Receive" > "Disable Scheduled Send/Receive" is checked.
- "Schedule and automatic send/receive every X minutes" is unchecked under Send/Receive groups.
Outlook is still happily downloading new email every minute or so. Have I missed or misunderstood some of the settings?
Best Answer
Assuming we're talking about an Exchange Account, and not POP3:
Outlook doesn't "download" email from the server, as the email remains in the mailbox on Exchange. If you really want to disable automatic synchronization, set the Exchange account to be in Cached Exchange mode, and then in the bottom right of the Outlook window where it says "Connected", click that and select "Work Offline".
Now to synchronize you'll have to manually send and receive. I would be interested to hear why exactly you want this set up this way though.