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Using Outlook

I've just had a go at using my arch nemisis Outlook 2007, and linked it up to my yahoo mail account to try it out.

Its all configured fine, but when it "sent and received" messages, it took them all off the yahoo servers!!

They are gone! I was not expecting that. I was expecting it just to synchronise mail (e.g. when I delete an email in outlook, it is deleted on the Hotmail Server, and etc...is deleted when I view mail in my web browser.)

Is there a way I can synchronise the Outlook Client to just download copies off the Yahoo server, not actually take them off? And Delete mail off the Yahoo server when I delete them from Outlook.

Thanks. I dont like the idea of storing mail on my pc as it could crash anytime and lose all my mails. It would be great if you could recommend a way to get my mail back onto my yahoo server.
 
Is there a "Leave a copy of messages on the server" account option as there is in OE under advanced.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011507931033.aspx

You might also want to tick remove from sever when deleted from deleted items.

If Yahoo support IMAP access maybe use that instead.

Thanks. I dont like the idea of storing mail on my pc as it could crash anytime and lose all my mails. It would be great if you could recommend a way to get my mail back onto my yahoo server.

If the Yahoo email server supported IMAP protocol that would be doddle as you could just move them back and Outlook would append them to the server's inbox with the original date too. Just googled and it looks like it doesn't - no real surprise there, as there are not many free IMAP services around.
 
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If you want to put all the email back onto your yahoo account, you may be able to transfer it back. I know there is a way to take them all off and convert to outlook, so there might be a way back.
 
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I realised now why Outlook is my arch nemesis. Its too complex to use. I've gone back to Windows Desktop Live mail, where I can simply synchronize it with my yahoo account. Any mail I delete whilst viewed in Yahoo, is deleted from the yahoo server, and vice versa.

I couldn't find a way to get the mail back onto the yahoo server, so I just forwarded all the mail in one single email, and sent it to my yahoo account.

Its actually a pretty effective way to archive mail, as you can just open one mail and scroll through each one, as each email follows on from the next fluidly, without separators.

Thanks for your help guys. But really, upon first configuration, outlook should not take off all your mail off the server without telling you. You should have to specially configure outlook to take mail off the server, as there's no way to get it back on as it originally way!
 
Thanks for your help guys. But really, upon first configuration, outlook should not take off all your mail off the server without telling you. You should have to specially configure outlook to take mail off the server, as there's no way to get it back on as it originally way!

As far as I know Outlook behaves the way POP clients are supposed to work. Not so long ago mailserver's inboxes were all pretty small so you wouldn't want to archive your email on them.

If you want to keep your mail on a mailserver and be able to access it from more than one PC, what you really want is an IMAP mailserver.
 
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