OL98: (CW) "Check for new mail on" Does Not Work for Internet E-mail Account

If you click to clear the option to Check for new mail on for your Internet E-mail account, and leave the option selected for your Exchange Server account, background mail checking may still check your Internet E-mail account.

The option to Check for new mail on on the Mail Services tab, only controls the behavior when you click the Send/Receive button or press F5 to force Outlook to manually check e-mail accounts. Check for new mail on has no effect on background mail checking.

To turn off automatic background mail checking for your Internet E-mail account, click to clear the Check my local network connection(s) for mail every X minutes check box. If you clear this check box, then Outlook will not check your Internet E-mail account in the background. This setting applies to all Internet E-mail accounts in your profile.

To control background checking of your Internet e-mail accounts, follow these steps:

1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2. On the Internet E-mail tab, click to clear the Check my local network connection(s) for mail every 10 minutes check box, and then click OK.

For additional information about scheduling automatic Internet e-mail account checking, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: