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| Automatically Dial the Internet Whenever Sending or Receiving E-mail SUMMARY: Connect to the Internet whenever Outlook 2003 needs to transfer e-mail.
If your job constantly depends on e-mail for communication, and you connect to the Internet via dial-up, you can configure Outlook 2003 to automatically connect to the Internet whenever it needs to send or receive e-mail in the background.
1. Click "Tools" - "Options".
2. When the "Options" multi-tabbed dialog box appears, click the "Mail Setup" tab.
3. Check "Automatically dial during a background Send/Receive".
4. Click "Send/Receive".
If you are not already set up to send/receive e-mail in the background:
1. Click "Send/Receive". The "Send/Receive Groups" dialog box should appear.
2. Click "All Accounts" or choose your desired group name.
3. Underneath "Setting for group", check "Schedule an automatic send/receive every".
4. Next to the above checkbox, enter how many minutes Outlook 2003 should wait before transmitting e-mail while you are online.
5. Underneath "When Outlook is Offline", check "Schedule an automatic send/receive every".
6. Next to the above checkbox, enter how many minutes Outlook 2003 should wait before automatically connecting to the Internet via dial-up and transmitting e-mail if you are offline.
When done, click "Close" to close the "Send/Receive Groups" dialog box, and "OK" to close the "Options" dialog box.
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