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Microsoft Outlook 2000 question...

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jleon

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I want to be able to set up outlook to connect to my yahoo account. I have inputed all the necessary information. However, outlook downloads all my email from yahoo and puts all the mail into the trash folder in the yahoo account, thus removing the mail on the yahoo server. Is there a way to set it up to just download the copies of the email on yahoo, therefore I have two copies, 1 local and 1 on yahoo. I have checked all the settings in outlook and cannot find how to set that up. Any help would be appreciated.

I've tried:
Tools -> Accounts -> Properties -> Advanced -> Check "Leave a copy of messages on server".

But that only results in duplicates copies being downloaded in my outlook after I log into outlook another time.
thanks in advance!
 
Here's how to make it stop doing that: Save up several billion dollars, buy Yahoo.com, and hire someone to change their POP3 code for you. Basically, it can't be done. It's something that you will have to learn to live with. POP3 protocol currently doesn't support such a function as that. You are thinking of a Microsoft Exchange type of setup, where the messages are stored on a main server, and your computer is merely a terminal where you can look at the messages and have the server delete or save them as you choose.

 
Pop3 can do that, actually.

The issue in this case is that Outlook is "losing sync" with the Yahoo server. You may have more luck with leaving the mail in your Outlook instead of deleting it before closing...otherwise, you'll notice that long periods of either the mail server or you being offline may result in duplicate emails being downloaded. This is generally normal behavior for pop3 servers.

~Ladi
 
Ahh, thanx for the response guys. Guess I'm out of luck, I thought there might have been a way to get by this. I remember I was able to POP my mail from the school server using outlook and didn't have the same problem. I guess it's a different set up, I think the mail were on unix boxes.
 
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