1) Ctrl+Alt+S to open the send receive settings dialog. Is the gmail account
configured for automatic checking?

2) You can't have it both ways, but there is no need to open the outbox -
just press F5 when in outlook to begin the send process and bring up the
password dialog.

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"red60man" wrote in message
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i am accessing gmail(pop3/smtp) with outlook 2002 on my XP proff SP2. I
have
two problems

1) I have setup such that my password is rememberd by outlook. so that i
can
send emails and receive them without entering any login info. But
everytime i
start outlook i dont get the emails from gmail. I have to explicitly say
send/receive to receive email.
How can i make it automatic so that whenever i start outlook i receive the
email from gmail without saying send/receive.??

2) If i dont ask outlook to remember my password. then everytime i send an
email it goes to outbox. i have to then go to outbox and click the message
then it asks for my login credentials.
but i want outlook to ask for my credentials when i compose a message from
an email link in an excell cell

any help is appreciated