There should be a disable capability for email accounts.

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Sosten

I am in the process of switching ISPs. I don’t want to remove the POP3
settings for the old ISP from outlook. But, it seems like I have to do that
so that Outlook doesn’t keep checking that account. I want to make sure that
the forwarding I set up with the old ISP is working before I remove the
account from Outlook.
 
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SSYWAK

I would say: all versions.

Certainly, this feature is not present in Outlook 2003. I currently run
2003, and would love to be able to do exactly this. I have an "emergency
e-mail" account for my corporate e-mail that I'd love to be able to
enable/disable at will, and not have to make/delete it instead. When things
are "normal," the emergency account cannot get through, and gives me errors;
when we need it, we need it, though, and have access to it (don't ask me how
*that* works...I'm just an end user)--and the "normal" account gives errors
whenever it tries to pull mail.

--Steve Sywak
 
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Brian Tillman

SSYWAK said:
Certainly, this feature is not present in Outlook 2003.
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Certainly it is.
I currently run 2003, and would love to be able to do exactly this. I
have an
"emergency e-mail" account for my corporate e-mail that I'd love to
be able to enable/disable at will, and not have to make/delete it
instead.
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Put it in a separate send/receive group, removing it from the "All Accounts"
group. Do not enable a send/receive interval in the emergency group. Then,
when you click Send/Receive (or Outlook does it automatically), your
emergency account won't be activated. Only when you explicitly specify
Tools>Send?Receive>youremergencygroup will it activate.
 
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ssywak

Excellent!

This is one of those times when I don't mind being wrong.

....and it's already done.

Thanks for the help, Brian.

--Steve
 
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