I am not computer saavy, and do not pretend to be. I have outlook only
because some "Contact Us" buttons require it. Other than that singular use,
I do not need 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.

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.

"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

"dkim@accentasia" wrote in
message ...

I am not computer saavy, and do not pretend to be. I have outlook only
because some "Contact Us" buttons require it. Other than that singular
use,
I do not need outlook.

If I were you , I'd uninstall Outlook and stick to Outlook Express or
Windows Mail, depending on your Windows version. In fact, you don't even
need that. You can continue to use the web mail client if you choose, but
you'll need to copy/paste the address the "Contact Us" link provides into
the compose window the web mail client provides.

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.

Answered already.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]