Outlook 2003 automatically does a send/receive when you start the app. What is making you believe that it doesn't?

You can also enable the setting "shedule an automatic send receive every:" and set it to 1 minute.

Outlook 2003 does a send/receive when I start it.... i don't know why yours doesn't, it's not a setting that can be changed afaik.

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