Outlook 2003 always downloads Inbox from Exchange ???!

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Gleb Holodov

Dear All!

I've just started using Outlook 2003 and set up 3 different accounts in it:
1 POP, 1 IMAP and 1 Exchange. The first two work just as it is expected, but
the Exchange mail account behaves really bewildering: despite of the
settings of Send/Recieve (I even removed it from all groups and turned off
send/recieve scheduling), it suddenly displays "preparing to recieve mail
from Microsoft Exchange" or something like that in a tray and gets on MOVING
all those tons of stuff I have in my Inbox Exchange folder into the local
inbox. The problem is that I don't want it to behave that "smart" - I just
wanted to be able to browse my mail on-demand, just in the way I did with
IMAP.
I tried to turn on caching, but it worked even more strange - it started
to download all mail from all folders. I always thought that caching means
retaining the copies of mails that I accessed...
Well, all I wanted was to just use a calendar, and that's what I got...
Really ugly behavior. Does anyone know how to get it back on track?
Pleeeease!
Btw, in send/recieve settings, there's a setting "download all messages
with attachments / only headers", but it's grayed out for Exchange accounts
for no reason.

Sorry if this question has been discussed before, but since I'm using a
localized version, I don't even know what keywords to search.
 
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Robert Crayk

If you go to Tools > Email Accounts > NEXT > where is delivery of New email
going to (field at bottom)
 
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Gleb Holodov

Thanks, Robert!

I will definetly give it a try, but which particular account should I point
to there? And why doesn't the same thing happen to IMAP mail?
I want all my POP mail to keep falling into the local PST file (default
Inbox) and all IMAP and Exchange mail to just stay at their original place
without neither speculative caching nor disastrous download-and-kill.

Gleb
 
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

The delivery location will always be whatever that profile has been set for,
regardless of the account. Set up separate mail profiles in Outlook. One for
Exchange, one for the others.
 
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GMAN Slater

With Outlook closed. Go into the Control Panel and double click the Mail icon. Click the "E-Mail Accounts" button. Then "View or change existing e-mail accounts" should be selected. Click Next. Select your Exchange server account in the list. Down at the bottom under "Deliver new e-mail to the following location" you should see your mailbox listed. If a PST is listed instead change it to your mailbox. Now with your Exchange server still selected, click the "Change..." button. Make sure "Use Exchange Cache Mode" is unchecked. Also click the "More Settings..." then select the "Advanced" tab. Click the "Offline Folder File Settings..." button. Now click the "Disable Offline Use" button. If it is grayed out you may have to apply the no cache mode change first. Do not include this account in any Send/Receive group. In this manner you will have to be online with a connection to Exchange to utilize this account.
 
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Robert Crayk

Hi Gleb,

As Lanwench has mentioned you cannot have different delivery points for POP3
and Exchange accounts (IMAP does), for POP3 and Exchange you either deliver
it all to the PST or Exchange mailbox, and if you want to separate them you
would have to set up the Exchange account for IMAP or as Lanwench mentioned
in a different Profile.
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
 
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Gleb Holodov

Lanwench, Robert, GMAN,
thank you very much for your prompt and really useful advices!

both approaches worked for me, however, I choose two work with 2 different
profiles, although it's ugly. Sigh. I just didn't want my private POP mail
to be uploaded to the work Exchange server :)
I wonder, why couldn't Microsoft to have the same mode as what they have
for IMAP at least as an option?

Gleb
 
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Brian Tillman

Gleb Holodov said:
I wonder, why couldn't Microsoft to have the same mode as what
they have for IMAP at least as an option?
Click to expand...

Well, you _can_ connect to an Exchange server using IMAP protocols, so that,
too, would be an option.
 
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