On 8/26/2003 7:05 AM, zaqq deftly typed out: > Diane, thanks for these links. I�d never been clear on the differences before.
I'm not sure you're quite clear on them yet. > I have my own website, and I have set up all the emails to be POP, but to not > delete for 30 days. If I�m on a 12-day road trip, traveling with my PB G4 > 10.2.6, I�m able to get all my mail and not have to worry about the hassle of > re-syncing with my 933Mhz 10.2.6 machine when I get back home, since all that > email will also be downloadable again. The only thing I like to transfer over > (from Powerbook to 933) is my Replies. This is a sort of "Poor Man's" IMAP. But it only works with the Inbox. If you file away the messages you receive on the laptop, you have to remember to repeat the process on the desktop machine as well. With an IMAP account you have access to all of your mailboxes including the "Sent Items" so there would be no need to "transfer over" your replies or re-file your messages. > My question: how does the whole system know what emails have been downloaded > on a particular computer? For instance, if I receive an email right now, and > completely delete it (actually delete it from the Delete folder), it won�t > download again when I retrieve messages a minute later. In other words, it > doesn�t seem that Entourage can�t check to first see if each email exists at a > particular computer. Each machine makes a note of which messages it has downloaded once the download process is complete. The next time it checks it only downloads those messages that haven't been downloaded before. This "inventory" is local to the machine doing the downloading and can't be referenced by another machine. > A second related question: if you did completely delete an important email > (with the above 30-day setup), how would you go about getting a second copy? > Would you need to go online to your website and manually grab it, or is there > a way to do it through Entourage? It depends on how you setup the POP account in Entourage. If, in the account "Options", you checked the box "Delete messages from the server after they are deleted from this computer", then the message is removed from the server mailbox and is really gone. If you uncheck this box, the message is left on the server for the specified 30 days. -Remo Del Bello -- "Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice sharp bones to stick in his eyes." - Kendo proverb -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
