Turning Off Automatic Mail Checking in Exchange Account

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michael.hyatt

I want to be able to turn off automatic email checking in an Exchange
account. On POP accounts, I can uncheck "Include this account in my
'Send & Receive All' schedule" in the Account Settings dialog. However,
I can not figure out how to do this with an Exchange account. Thanks.
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

I want to be able to turn off automatic email checking in an Exchange
account. On POP accounts, I can uncheck "Include this account in my
'Send & Receive All' schedule" in the Account Settings dialog. However,
I can not figure out how to do this with an Exchange account. Thanks.
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Yeah exchange is different in this regard. Then only way I could think
of would be to work offline (which also prevents receiving e-mails from
all the other accounts).


Corentin
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Yeah exchange is different in this regard. Then only way I could think
of would be to work offline (which also prevents receiving e-mails from
all the other accounts).
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But you can still check them via cmd-K (i.e. manually running Send & Receive
All) - this will not check Exchange, only the POP and IMAP accounts. Click
"Connect" when the dialog comes up asking if you want to connect once or
work online.

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michael.hyatt

This is a bummer. It would be nice to turn them all off with one
setting, and check them all with cmd-K.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

This is a bummer. It would be nice to turn them all off with one
setting, and check them all with cmd-K.
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As I said, you can, more or less. Work Offline (Entourage menu), and check
all accounts except Exchange via cmd-K. Check Exchange by toggling Work
Offline off (it checks immediately without even needing to do a Synchronize
Now). So you could do all at once by toggling Work Offline and also cmd-K
immediately.

If doing two things is really such a nuisance, it could easily be done by an
AppleScript called by a keyboard shortcut. Here's the script:


tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set working offline to false
execute schedule "Send & Receive All"
tell Exchange account 1 to sync (get its inbox folder)
set working offline to true
end tell




Save this in /Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor as a Script, to the
Entourage Script Menu Items folder in the Microsoft User Data folder in
~/Documents folder. (That's the Documents folder in your user folder.) Give
it a name such as

Receive All \moK

which has a keyboard shortcut of option-cmd-K. (See "About the script menu"
in Entourage Help to learn how to assign keyboard shortcuts to scripts.)

Keep Work Offline and run this script by pressing the keyboard shortcut.
You'd need to Work Online occasionally to sync your other Exchange folders.
Or use this script instead:


tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set working offline to false
execute schedule "Send & Receive All"
tell Exchange account 1
set allFolders to every folder
repeat with i from 1 to (count allFolders)
set exchFolder to item i of allFolders
sync exchFolder
end repeat
end tell
set working offline to true
end tell


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MVP MacOffice
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michael.hyatt

Paul,

Just wanted to confirm ... I installed the second script. It works
beautifully. I am using it now!

Thanks again,

Mike
 
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