Upgraded to Outlook yesterday, after years or avoiding it. Maybe I was right to avoid it. I send an outragious amount of e-mail to 1 e-mail address over the course of the day, so I created a shortcut to open an e-mail to him and placed it on my Quick Launch bar. With OE sending e-mail was as simple as clicking the shortcut, writing the e-mail and sending it out. Not so with Outlook. Everything's the same (outside of the new Word editor) but when I send, it doesn't send.. it simply sits in my outbox until I start up Outlook. I can't sit around with Outlook open and hogging up resources all day long, and it's a real pain to open it every time I need to send an e-mail. Any suggestions how to make this work, or if it's just not possible and I may need to head back to OE? Thanks in advance.

Outlook needs to be open in order for the mail to send.

Try going into Tools/Options - Mail Setup Tab, Send/Recieve (Outlook XP) Then make sure that the "Schedule an Automatic Send/Recieve" radio button is checked under "When Outlook is offline".