The "Online Access" feature is a poor man's IMAP - a VERY poor man's IMAP. Entourage 2001 did indeed inherit it from OE 5, and it hasn't been touched since. Instead, they've made greater and greater improvements to IMAP support, which is now excellent in Entourage 2004.
I can't imagine they're going to want to spend any resources on fixing an old make-do thing like POP Online Access. If the bugs were serious, they'd probably sooner just get rid of it. I found it very useful myself before I had IMAP and still have it rigged up for my one POP account (this one). But I wouldn't use it as my main access to my POP account - POP is not designed to work that way. I'd recommend leaving messages on the server if need be, but nevertheless downloading to local folders. If for some reason you are trying to avoid accumulating a large database, 1) you can delete local messages regularly if you want to and 2) the local cache created by reading online messages takes up the same amount of space anyway. (You'd have to delete the cache too.) I don't think it's safe to depend on Online Access POP as your main access. I think what you're probably seeing is the local cache getting out of sync with the messages on the server. You can't accidentally make the server message really disappear. Even when you do choose to delete, it only marks it for deletion - you still have to connect to the server (check mail) before the message actually deletes. And I doubt that's happening here. First try a "Refresh Message List" - cmd-L. But probably what you need to do when this stuff starts happening is to Empty Cache (control-click on the server icon) then go away and come back to the server. One other possibility: your ISP may well have anti-virus and maybe anti-spam utilities too. I'm not sure how they work, but perhaps your ISP is whisking away "bad" messages, and because you're looking at the serer you can see it happening. Then they really would disappear. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP Entourage Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. > From: Julian Vrieslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:58:29 -0700 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: The message that never was (lost message #3 for today) > > I described the scenario to a friend of mine. He claims that he sees the > same thing in Outlook Express. I believe he uses the same ISP that I do > (Earthlink). > >> There is the same or similar bug in OE 5.0.5, which I run in OS 9.1. I use >> a feature with my POP account that lets me look at the inbox on the server. >> You can set the account to "Allow online access (shows account in folder >> list)". If you set it up that way, you can look at the messages that are on >> the POP server without downloading them to your inbox. It's very useful for >> deleting spam before you download it. >> >> The bug is that you'll see a message in your incoming message list, and >> double click to open it. Instead of that message opening, however, the >> message just above (below?) it opens. The message you tried to open is >> disappeared. >> >> If you change identities, and log in under a different name, the message >> appears. So somehow the OE database for the first identity is corrupted. >> Rebuilding the database did not help. >> >> I tried once to download the messages to my inbox after the message was lost >> in the "online account." I can't remember what happened. I'll have to try >> it again, if/when it happens again. >> >> If you want to post this note to the Entourage list, please do. >> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Roger S. Cohen, President, Cohen International > > -- > Julian Vrieslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > 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/> > > -- 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/>
