How to schedule send/receive in Outlook for Mac using Exchange Account

Question

How can I turn off automatic incoming emails and instead receive new emails on a schedule only? For example, new emails at 10AM and 2PM.

Version: Outlook for Mac 16.13.1
Server Type: outlook.office365.com Exchange Server

Answer 1

There's no way to do this. VBA would be the obvious choice, but Outlook for Mac does not support it. Another (crude) approach would be to start and stop Outlook from crontab entries with the appropriate command line switches, but Outlook for Mac doesn't have command line switches either.