"kracker" wrote in message
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Not sure. How do I check if its starting off-line?

I have the 'schedule an automatic send/receive' set to 5mins. Is that what
you mean by polling? That works fine. It does not do an initial receive
though when I start up the O2003.


That's the one, although if you are on POP then 5 minutes is too frequent
and yes it ought to poll automatically on start-up.
Have a look here for some hints:
http://www.mcse.ms/archive127-2004-11-1255801.html