Checking mail with Outlook 2000 1

[drkestrel]

I have set up my Outlook 2000 to send/receive mails using Internet mail (i.e. SMTP/POP3).

I have a few of those SMTP/POP3 server pairs set up under Tools->Services in Outlook 2000.

Also, under Mail Options in Tools->Options->Mail Services, I have only ticked on the boxes associated with the Internet Mail account I want Outlook to check mail for (when I click <Send/Receive> button.

However, when I click <Send/Receive>, Outlook keeps on checking mail for the Internet Mail accounts which has not been 'ticked'?

Why is that and how could I solve this problem?

 

[jbuchanangb]

I use O2k (in Corporate Workgroup mode), and have tackled this subject a different way. Instead of setting up multiple pairs of settings in one profile, I have set up separate profiles in O2K each with a different SMTP/POP3 pair, even with different connection setting to the different ISPs responsible for the associated SMTP server.
O2K prompts me when I open it as to which profile I want to use.
All the profiles point to the same Inbox, so whenever I check e-mail it is all in the same place.
Maybe this approach would help you?

 

[drkestrel]

You mean have different profiles all pointing to the same PST file?

Then, when you click send/receive, you would just be receiving/sending on one SMTP/POP3 server pairs.

Say, you have 5 email accounts each with a SMTP and POP3 server and you just want send/receive to recieve on 3 of the 5 POP3 servers, what would you do (preferably) without changing/alternating profiles?

 

[jbuchanangb]

Hello again
Yes, multiple profiles for same PST
I've been testing - I set up a second Internet E-mail service on the profile which I normally use. The first thing to take care of is that the outgoing server should always be the one for the ISP through which you will dial-up, so it must match the ISP setting in the connection details.
I noticed that O2K checked both POP servers just fine.
I noticed that when I invoked send/receive from an off-line state it connected to the ISP, sent/received mail disconnected, connected again to the ISP for the other service, sent/received, and then disconnected. I have unmetered ISP so that doesn't bother me.
Then I tried unchecking the selected services as you said.
For me, O2K then didn't check both, it only checked one.
Well I have learnt something, but I have not been able to replicate your scenario.
Maybe someone else can shed some light on it.

 

[celchlepp]

are you by any chance talking about checking web based mail services with your O2K Outlook2000? If you are, I would like to add my own scenario here:
I have a yahoo.com account, and was wanting to know if it is possible to check the yahoo acct with outlook2000.

I set up the pair as mail.yahoo.com for both, and tried smtp, and tried us.f97.mail.yahoo.com also, only because when you are there that is what the status bar shows as your location.

any ideas here?
any help would be very much appreciated, and thanks in advance here.

 

[drkestrel]

chuckska:
Yahoo is now charging for people who want to use POP3 to check Yahoo mail. So unless you pay or use the web-based interface with yahoo, whatever server you use, you probably won't get any access to check mail!

I don't know why Outlook 2000 is still trying to check mail even though I un ticked the box associated with it under Tools->Options->Mail Services.

jbuchanangb
Have you run Outloook 2000's SP1 and SP2 and are you running it on Win 2K Professional SP2? If so, I don't know how you managed to get it working

 

[jbuchanangb]

Hello

I'm running O2K SR-1 in &quot;Corporate or Workgroup&quot; mode on W98SE. I did install Office2000 SP2, and I have since applied the Security Update.

How can you tell it is still trying to check mail even when you have unticked the boxes?

I can tell it is doing it because a pop-up appears called &quot;Deliver Messages&quot; which says words to the effect of &quot;sending messages and checking for new messages&quot;. Then clears down, and re-appears for each internet mail service which it checks.

I tried un-checking all the boxes, and then clicked send/receive, and it definitely did nothing.

Then checked them one by one and watched what happened.

I did this all without disconnecting from the ISP so it only took a few minutes. You can do this without restarting Outlook.

If it doesn't work for you, I would suggest removing all the Internet Mail services from the profile. Then restart Outlook, and add one service. Restart Outlook and make sure it works. Then add the next service. Restart Outlook and try again.

Hope you can fix it. I like the idea of having all my mail services in one profile and picking them easily to check them.