Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

Sending and Receiving Mail

All of the careful setup you’ve done up till now leads up to your goal: telling Entourage to check for incoming mail and send any outgoing mail. The basic process is easy, but several subtleties can make your email experience more satisfying.

Tip

You can also set up Entourage to check your email accounts automatically according to a schedule, as described on Advanced Mail-Getting Features.

Send and Receive All

When Entourage opens for the first time, you’ve got mail; the Inbox contains a message for you from Microsoft. It wasn’t actually transmitted over the Internet, though—it’s a starter message built into Entourage just to tease you. Fortunately, all your future mail comes via the Internet.

You get new mail and send mail you’ve written using the Send & Receive command. You can trigger it in any of several ways:

• Click the Send/Receive button in the toolbar.

• Choose Tools → Send & Receive → Send & Receive All (or choose from the submenu which account you wish to send and receive email from).

• Press ⌘-K.

Figure 10-6. Top: Clicking the Options tab reveals a slew of options that aren’t available through the Account Setup Assistant. For example, if you have a slow connection, you can choose to just partially receive large messages, and if you’d like to access your mail from more than one computer, you can choose to leave a copy of the messages on the server. Bottom: The ...