Send to: mail recipient - Outlook 2003

[mixerman]

When I use the "Send To > Mail Recipient" context menu, the resulting email
goes to my "outbox" and is not sent until I start Outlook and click
Send/Receive. I have Outlook set to send messages immediately, and it does
when I compose them with Outlook open, but when it is not open and I use the
"Send To > Mail Recipient" context menu, it does not send it immediately.
How do I get it to send immediately without having to open Outlook and click
"Send/Receive"? Outlook Express didn't have this problem. It would send
immediately from the context menu weather OE was open or not.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Outlook must be open to send - it is NOT Outlook Express and has nothing in common with it except for the name.

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After furious head scratching, mixerman asked:

| When I use the "Send To > Mail Recipient" context menu, the resulting
| email goes to my "outbox" and is not sent until I start Outlook and
| click Send/Receive. I have Outlook set to send messages immediately,
| and it does when I compose them with Outlook open, but when it is not
| open and I use the "Send To > Mail Recipient" context menu, it does
| not send it immediately. How do I get it to send immediately without
| having to open Outlook and click "Send/Receive"? Outlook Express
| didn't have this problem. It would send immediately from the context
| menu weather OE was open or not.

 

[Vanguard]

in message

When I use the "Send To > Mail Recipient" context menu, the resulting
email
goes to my "outbox" and is not sent until I start Outlook and click
Send/Receive. I have Outlook set to send messages immediately, and it
does
when I compose them with Outlook open, but when it is not open and I
use the
"Send To > Mail Recipient" context menu, it does not send it
immediately.
How do I get it to send immediately without having to open Outlook and
click
"Send/Receive"? Outlook Express didn't have this problem. It would
send
immediately from the context menu weather OE was open or not.

When you open just the new-mail window to compose a new message, Outlook
is only partially loaded. Not all functionality of Outlook is
available. You get enough of Outlook to compose the message. When you
click Send, what really happens is that the message goes into the Outbox
and Oultook unloads. Since Outlook is unloaded, it can't do anything,
including sending your message. Not until you reopen Outlook *fully*
can you send messages.

Unfortunately, sending immediately is triggered when you are in the
new-mail window, click Send, and Outlook is *fully* loaded. Your old
item that was created when Outlook was only partially loaded does not
create the trigger to send when you reload Outlook fully. The result is
that the item sits in your Outbox until you load Outlook, reopen that
item in the Outbox, and then click Send. Now the send trigger will work
because Outlook is now fully loaded. That's how it is up to OL2002.
Don't know if Microsoft fixed this in OL2003 and later.

 

[mixerman]

All I can say is... Awe, rats...

Thanks for your response. At least now I know I'm not missing something.