I saw Remo's reply which seems to have missed the point of your e-mail, so I will try to give you a different set of answers - although I am by no means an expert. See below.
Jim > > From: zaqq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:05:34 -0600 > To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Spam Rules > > On Mon 25, Diane Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You really need to understand the difference between IMAP and POP. Here are >> two links that should help. >> >> O'Reilly Network: Using IMAP on Mac OS X [May. 21, 2002] >> <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/05/21/imap.html> >> >> Accounts >> <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/help/send_receive/learning/accounts.html> > > > Diane, thanks for these links. I�d never been clear on the differences before. > > 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. The easiest way to get the replies over is when you reply while on the road, list yourself as a blind carbon copy. Then your replies will be there for download when you get back home. Another option would be to place the replies you send while on the road into a special folder and drag that folder to the desktop, thereby creating an Mbox formatted file. Move the file to your home machine by some means (could be sent as an attachment to yourself, if you do not have any other connectivity between the two machines. Then drag the machine into your folder list in Entourage on your home machine and move the replies in your sent items folder. > 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. As Remo explained each local machine maintains a log of what it has downloaded. I'm not sure what it keys on, but probably the message ID in the header. So it does not matter what you do with the message on the local machine, it will remember that you have downloaded it already from the log. > 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? The obvious answer is to remove the log of down loaded files so that the computer will view all messages as new. Now I have no idea where this log is or if there would be any other problems with deleting it. Of course, as Remo pointed out, if you have the "delete messages from the server after they are deleted from this computer" checked, then the message will be deleted from the server the next time you check for new messages and then you would be out of luck. There is a button on the options tab of the Pop Mail account window that says "Get all remaining messages on the Server" that might do what you want, if it bypasses the log. Good luck -- 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/>
