31 July 2008, 14:09 in Computing
Make Outlook keep emails on server
Here is a simple tip that may make your life easier if you use POP3 email accounts and use Microsoft Outlook to check your email, but occasionally also want to use webmail when away from your PC.
The problem is that by default, Outlook downloads your emails and removes them off the server. This means that if someone sends me an email and I check my email at home in Outlook, then the email no longer exists on the server. When I get to work the next day and login to my webmail, the email isn’t there, so I can’t read it or reply to it until I’m at home again.
It would be great if I could use Outlook at home for its powerful features yet still be able to view the emails from webmail for some time. Fortunately there is an easy solution…
In Outlook, under the settings for each of your email accounts, you can specify that Outlook should leave a copy of messages on the server for a number of days.
If you set this to say, 2 days, then you can still see any emails in your webmail for 2 days after you downloaded them in Outlook. This works well for me.
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