"VanguardLH" wrote:

dkim@accentasia wrote:

I am not computer saavy, and do not pretend to be. I have outlook
only because some "Contact Us" buttons require it.

Nope, that's not a requirement of the site or its link. The link is a
mailto: URL. Your OS selects what, if any, default program is
associated to that URL scheme. It can be any program but usually an
e-mail client is selected - but it can be ANY e-mail client, not just
Outlook.

Other than that singular use, I do not need outlook.

Not a requirement of a mailto: URL link, so you don't have a need for
Outlook.

My question is, everytime I use outlook, it takes all the InBox emails
from my main email acoount and moves them to OUtlook. How can I
prevent this from happening? In simple layman terms, please.

Don't define an e-mail account in Outlook. Or define an e-mail client
that only specifies an SMTP mail host (if all you use Outlook is to
send e-mails). Or disable the automatic mail polling. Or configure
Outlook to "leave messages on server" (which presumes that you have a
POP e-mail account but you never identified WHAT type of e-mail account
you have). Or don't use Outlook at all for mailto: URL links and use
whatever e-mail client you want to use.

I appreciate your response and am confident your suggestions will work and
make sense...to somebody. How do I disable mail polling? That sounds like
the best, most flexible option. Thanks for your time.

dkim@accentasia wrote:

How do I disable mail polling? That sounds like the best, most
flexible option.

Depends on your version of Outlook (not identified) regarding
navigation through its menus. For Outlook 2002:

Tools - Send/Receive Settings - Define Send/Receive Groups

If you don't want to use Outlook at all, change which e-mail client is
configured to be the default one:

Internet Options (Control Panel or IE Tools menu) - Programs - E-mail