Periodic download from a separate account

M

Murray

I have an email account from which I only want to retrieve email only
periodically - in other words I don't want to do it on the regular 10-minute
cycle I have set in Entourage. What is the best way to do that? Right now,
I have to open TOOLS : Accounts, select the account, enable the include
checkbox, send/receive, disable the checkbox, and close the panel. There
must be a better way! 8)
 
A

Alan Schaevitz

---------On 8/30/05 12:11 PM "Murray" said:
I have an email account from which I only want to retrieve email only
periodically - in other words I don't want to do it on the regular 10-minute
cycle I have set in Entourage. What is the best way to do that? Right now,
I have to open TOOLS : Accounts, select the account, enable the include
checkbox, send/receive, disable the checkbox, and close the panel. There
must be a better way! 8)
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Set up and enable a new schedule to read that account (and only that
account) at the interval you want. Make sure to remove that account from
the Send and Receive All schedule.
 
M

Murray

LOL - while looking around for how to do this, I discovered that under Send
& Receive, I can explicitly select this special account. That would do the
same, right?
 
A

Alan Schaevitz

---------On 8/30/05 1:51 PM "Murray" said:
LOL - while looking around for how to do this, I discovered that under Send
& Receive, I can explicitly select this special account. That would do the
same, right?
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Not quite. Using the Tools > Send and Receive, you can select one account
to read from. However, you must still remove it from the list of accounts
in the Send and Receive All schedule or it will still read ever 10 minutes
(or whatever interval you set for that schedule). Also, using Tools > Send
and Receive, you will only read that special account when you select it
manually. You had said you wanted to read that account periodically, just
not every 10 minutes. To do that, you need to set up a special schedule for
that one account, say, to read it once a day.
 
M

Murray

Hmm - this is not what I am seeing.

I have 4 accounts. Three of them are set to synch email every 10 minutes.
The fourth is set to not be a part of this schedule and is the periodic
account I was mentioning. At any time, when I select that account
specifically from the Send & Receive menu option, I can download from it,
but that doesn't change the basic setting to not include this account in the
normal send/receive schedule.

Or am I missing something (like that's never happened before)? 8)
 
A

Alan Schaevitz

I don't see any difference between what I said and what you are saying. In
the Send & Receive All schedule, you can list all 3 of your accounts that
you want read every 10 minutes. Just make sure the 4th account is not there
(or it will be read, too). Now you can read the 4th account in one of two
ways:

1) Manually, by selecting it in the list of Tools > Send & Receive
2) By creating a schedule (Tools > Schedules > New) to read only this 4th
account, say, once a day

It's just a matter of whether you want to read the 4th account automatically
and periodically or just when you feel like it manually.
 
B

Barry Wainwright

No, you are not missing anything. If account 4 is not part of the S&RA
schedule, selecting that item from the drop down will only trigger a one
time mail collection, and will not add it to (or take it from) any
schedules.
 
M

Murray

Yep - I think I am understanding both of you now. This is the way I'd like
to use it for the present - the manually triggered synch....

Thanks, guys.
 
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