About send and receive groups

Send and receive groups contain one or more of the e-mail accounts you have set up in Microsoft Outlook. You can specify different behaviors for each group, such as the frequency with which Outlook connects to the server to send and receive messages for it, or how messages are processed when Outlook is online or offline.

Send and receive groups can contain any combination of Microsoft Exchange Server, POP3, IMAP, and HTTP accounts, along with accounts from any additional supported server types.

With send and receive groups you can:

Specify whether an account is included when sending/receiving mail.
Specify whether mail should be sent, received, or both, from an account.
Specify how often sent/receive commands occur.
Specify whether attachments should be downloaded.
Specify size limits on messages to be downloaded.
Specify folders to include when sending/receiving.
Specify downloading only headers for new messages.
Specify settings for when Outlook is offline.

Note The options and rules displayed in the Send/Receive Settings dialog box will differ depending on the type of account you are working with.