No. OE has to be open.
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Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Tyson" wrote in message
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Is there a way to recieve messages automatically without opening Outlook
Express and recieving messages? This would help because then it would tell
me
how many new messages I would have in the welcome screen of Windows XP. It
would also send messages automatically to my Gmail account.
Thanks!