Outlook is never going to send when its offline.
Set your polling interval for 10 mins less than that can cause resource
problems

"Smitty" wrote in message
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It takes forever to have an email message sent unless I press "Send
Receive"
I have Outlook set to do send/receive every minute when online and when
off
line...but it still will not send immediately when I try to send an email
I
have just finished and pressed "Send" for....it just sits in the
Outbox...I
do not get any error message and when I manually press "Send/Receive", it
finally goes...what is wrong? I have Outlook 2002 and XP.