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"Send only" account in Office 2019 not working
I'd like to be able to send, but not receive, e-mails from my University account. It's a Microsoft account but with a @universityname.ac.uk suffix. It uses dual authentication and I wonder if that may be part of the problem.
In Outlook 2019, I do the following:
- Go to “Send/Receive”
- Select “Send/Receive Groups”
- Select “Define Send/Receive Groups”
- Select “All Accounts Online Only” (This is the only option)
- Select “Edit”
- Select my University e-mail account
- Uncheck “Receive Mail Items”
- Click OK
- Click Close
If I send myself a test message from my University account it sends it, but also receives it. Does everyone else stop receiving e-mails when they uncheck receive? Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Any help would be much appreciated! 🙂
- Forgive me but I cannot imagine why somebody needs a send-only account. Are you a spammer?
- Hi Victor,
I appreciate it is an odd request. I want to be able to toggle my account to send only because I want to be able to 'batch process' my e-mails to increase efficiency.
In the morning, I want to be able to open my inbox and look all the e-mails from the day before that I've not been able to deal with. But I don't want to get distracted by new e-mails coming in. I want to be able to respond to the e-mails I've received form the day before (i.e. send) but not receive until later in the day. If I don't check my new e-mails until after midday, then it gives me some quiet time in the morning to do other tasks. The authors of this book discuss this idea: https://maketime.blog/
The option is there in Outlook, which makes me think some other people must do this!
Many thanks!
Brian- Ah, now I understood. In fact you don't need a send-only account, you need to receive the messages by a schedule. If you run your Outlook against Exchange online (Office 365), you can create a Power Automate flow that will do what you want.
Victor_Ivanidze this is not a spamming thing let us educate you that most small business owners benefit from send only account for example accounts at your business dot com or jobsapplications at yourbusiness dot com
- As far as I know, the addresses like "accounts at your business dot com" or "jobsapplications at yourbusiness dot com" are using to send emails by pieces of software, not by persons.
But the topic starter wants to have a send-only account for personal use.
