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[Bob]

For reasons mysterious, my email program in Outlook 2007 has suddenly decided
not to send my emails when I hit "Send'" but rather to put them in the Out
Box, where I find them difficult to send. If I try to close Outlook with
messages in the Out Box, a warning appears telling me not to do this unless I
want to lose the message. I want the email to be sent when I hit "Send'" but
I can't seem to find anything in Options or Tools to accomplish this. I have
not idea why it changed its method of operation. Can anybody help?

 

[DL]

When you hit send the email goes to your OutBox, it is sent from there when
outlook performs a send/receive.
If you close Outlook when msgs are in the Outbox the warning is a
Std.default warning
In your mail accounts/options, check the send/receive settings, there is one
to perform a send/receive when starting outlook, and a second option to poll
for mail every xx minutes - set it no less than 10 minutes.
And I assume outlook is not set offline (File>Offline)

Further if you have intergrated anti virus scanning your email, uninstall
that AV, reboot and retest Outlook. If the issue has gone away, reinstall
your AV *without* the outlook intergration

 

[Bob]

DL: Thanks. I discovered that Outlook was, indeed set to "Work Offlilne." I
don't know how it got that way, but that seems to have corrected the problem.