I wasn't trying to "chasten" you. Just trying to explain how the
options work.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"David42" wrote in message
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Michael,
Thanks and consider me chastened.
David

"Michael Santovec" wrote:

Those settings aren't contradictory.

When you compose a message (e-mail or news post) and click the Send
button in the message composition window, OE puts the message in the
Outbox folder ready to send.

If you have selected the Send Immediately option, OE will attempt to
immediately send the message which may or may not work depending on
whether or not you have an open Internet connection or if you have
dial-up your OE settings say that OE may dial.

Otherwise the message will sit in the Outbox until you either do a
manual send and receive or an automated one.

There are 2 automated ones.
- Send and Receive on start up occurs when you start OE. For most
people, there wouldn't likely be anything in the Outbox at start up
so
this usually is just receiving from the mail server. But if there is
anything in the Outbox, OE will try to send it.
- Check for new messages every xx minutes.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"David42" wrote in message
...
what I said earlier. I have noticed that under 'options' there
is
the
following:-

Under 'Send' you can tick 'Send Immediately'.

Under 'general' you can tick 'Send and receive messages at
Start-up'.

Is it possible that these are contradictory or, at best. confusing?

Anyway, I have removed the tick from 'Send and receive messages at
Start-up'.

Will see if it resolves that part of my problem, the first attempt
was
an
e-mail to me on Yahoo and that got through very quickly.

Ideas gents?

David

"franckel suffrard" wrote:

i have the same problem toooooooo
"David42" wrote in message
...
Hi,
I use Yahoo for most of my e-mail activities. The exception is
when
working
on the net I find that I want to contact a company.I click on
the
'Contact
us' link and a small windown opens with the company's e-mail
address
already
filled in which I can use to compose my message. Finish the
message
and
click
on 'send'.
I can see by the 'data' light on my cable modem that nothing has
happened
and, by experimenting I have discovered that I need to open
'Outlook
Express'
and click on 'Send and Receive All' before the message that I
have
created
is
sent.

Secondly, I am not able to save a copy of sent items in the
'sent'
folder
even though I have requested that in the options. On the
Microsoft
Knowledge
Base it seems to indicate that I should make O.E. the default
mail
handler.
I am a bit wary of this as I am not sure how it would affect my
Yahoo mail
account.

Any ideas folks?? I will be most grateful for any advice.
Dave.