Overview

After the previous chapter, you should be ready to click the Send button to transmit your carefully composed message. Now let's see what happens when you click Send in other words, how your message travels from Outlook to the intended recipients. We will also look at some issues related to

• specifying the sending account
• delivering Internet messages immediately
• controlling how Outlook dials

Sending Messages

When you've composed and addressed a message, click the Send button to send the message. This places the message in the Outbox for delivery to the mail server that will forward it on to your recipients. Sending a message and delivering it are actually separate steps in Outlook. Delivery often takes place at the same time you retrieve messages waiting on the server. Before we examine issues related to delivery, we have one more key sending issue to tackle how to send from a particular Internet account, so that the outgoing message carries the name and return e-mail address that you use with that particular account.

The ability to send any message using a particular Internet account with just a button click is one Internet Mail Only (IMO) mode feature that Corporate or Workgroup (CW) mode users sorely miss. You can send from a chosen account in CW mode, but it takes many more steps.