Outlook w/o IP?

[amarknyc]

My laptop has Win XP, Office 2011. Last week, I transferred through Dusseldorf Airport. I started Outlook and, then, my browser. My browser, instead of my default start page (Google), showed a page for the airport's pay IP connection. As I had little time, I decided not to pay... As I was aboiut to shut the computer, I noticed that Outlook was active: it d/led...and sent... a bunch of messages. Any ideas as to how Outlook was able to send/receive email when I hadn't purchased access?

 

[Ijack]

Sounds like the pay system isn't very well designed and only blocks HTTP access. Perhaps that's all that they thought mattered. Obviously, to get the web page from the airport's system you must have had a network connection.