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  <info>
    <desc>Force sending and receiving emails.</desc>

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    <revision pkgversion="3.0.2" version="0.4" date="2011-09-29" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Andre Klapper</name>
      <email>ak-47@gmx.net</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>    

  </info>

<title>Manually send and receive messages</title>
<p>To receive new messages from the mail server and to send messages you have written that are in the local Outbox, click the <gui style="button">Send / Receive</gui> button in the toolbar, or press <key>F9</key>, or choose <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Send / Receive</gui></guiseq> from the main menu.</p>
<p>To send and receive only for one of your mail accounts, or to only send or only receive, click the small down-arrow next to the <gui style="button">Send / Receive</gui> button and choose the corresponding option.</p>
<p>If you just want to send messages which are in your Outbox, you can right-click on the Outbox and click <gui>Flush Outbox</gui>.</p>

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