Problem with Outlook 2002 Send/Receive Settings for Mail Accounts

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Alex Bowyer

I have a laptop with Outlook 2002 and Windows 2000 which I use to
access a number of POP/SMTP accounts from work and from home.
(Outlook version 2002 10.2627.4219 SP2)

My company has a restriction on outward SMTP traffic so I have to use
their SMTP server when sending mail at work. Conversely when at home I
cannot access their SMTP server as I am outside the office network.
Therefore I have to use the mail providers' SMTP servers while at
home.

I can access the POP servers when at home or at work without
restriction.

The upshot of all this is that for each of my e-mail addresses I have
to have two accounts set up in Outlook. For example "Yahoo Mail (Send
via Work)" and "Yahoo Mail (Send via Yahoo)"

This creates a problem that when I download mail I end up with two
copies of messages as they are downloaded from both accounts for each
e-mail address.

I set up the Send/Receive Groups settings in Outlook so that the "All
Accounts" group is not used at all and not included in
Send/Receive(F9). I set up a second group called "Check Mail" which
only includes one account for each e-mail address and told Outlook to
include this group and only this group in Send/Receive.

This should solve my problem, however it doesn't seem to be working...
Outlook is still downloading mail from ALL accounts when I do a
Send/Receive. It also messes up my filtering rules as some of these
depend on mail being downloaded from the right account.

Is this a bug? Does anyone know how to get it to work?

Or can anyone propose another way to get my mail accounts working in
my situation?

Thanks & regards
Alex Bowyer
(e-mail address removed)
 

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