How to disable Outlook 2010 automatic send/receive?

Question

I want to disable automatic send and receive of emails in Outlook 2010. The ideal world would be to have to click the send/receive button, but anything close to that would work.

I already tried this, but it didn't work.

UPDATE: I'm using Microsoft Exchange.

Answer 1

Have you tried going to Send/Receive>Send/Receive Groups>Disable Scheduled Send/Receive?

As a note, you can also add the Send/Receive button to the Quick Access Toolbar as you can see the little icon near the top left in screenshot 1.

Answer 2

Step 1: Open Outlook and go to Tools –> Options.

Step 2: Click on the Mail Setup tab, if you want to disable automatic sending of messages, just uncheck the box next to “Send Immediately when connected”, this will disable automatic sending of messages.

Step 3: Click on the Send/Receive button in the same tab, this will open a new options window. To disable automatic send/receive for your account group, just select the group from the list and uncheck the box next to “Schedule an automatic send/receive every”.

With the automatic send/receive disable you will still have to download emails, just press the F9 key with the Outlook window in focus, whenever you want to manually send/receive email in Outlook.

Answer 3

With OUTLOOK 2010 - to disable automatic send when connected, do the following steps:

Select File --> Select Options --> Select Advanced --> With the 'Send and receive' section --> Untick the 'Send immediately when connected' box --> then press 'OK' button.