Windows live mail question...

[Augustus]

Why is the default setting for Windows Live Mail to download messages from
your pop mail while leaving a copy of your emails on your mail server? And
exactly where is the setting for changing this behaviour. I need it to
dowload and NOT leave a copy, just like Outlook and OE's default behaviour.
Since changing all three of our XP systems to Win7 64 Home Premium I'm
getting nonstop messages from my home email provider that my mail quota is
full. Help would be appreciated......

 

[Death]

Augustus wrote this, with guidance from inner voices:

Why is the default setting for Windows Live Mail to download messages from
your pop mail while leaving a copy of your emails on your mail server? And
exactly where is the setting for changing this behaviour. I need it to
dowload and NOT leave a copy, just like Outlook and OE's default
behaviour. Since changing all three of our XP systems to Win7 64 Home
Premium I'm getting nonstop messages from my home email provider that my
mail quota is full. Help would be appreciated......

Tool_Accounts_account Properties_Advanced tab_Delivery is at the bottom.

 

[augustus]

Tool_Accounts_account Properties_Advanced tab_Delivery is at the bottom.
Thanks.....I wound up having to right click on each email account to access
the delivery setting on the properties / advanced page. I wonder what the
rationale is for this mail program's default behavior of leaving a copy on
your pop mail server.

 

[Trev]

Thanks.....I wound up having to right click on each email account to
access the delivery setting on the properties / advanced page. I wonder
what the rationale is for this mail program's default behavior of leaving
a copy on your pop mail server.

You can then read it on any computer at work or home or even you mobile

 

[housetrained]

You can then read it on any computer at work or home or even you mobile

....until YOU decide to delete them

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Augustus.

Thanks.....I wound up having to right click on each email account to
access the delivery setting on the properties / advanced page. I wonder
what the rationale is for this mail program's default behavior of leaving
a copy on your pop mail server.

Many of us have multiple computers, or dual-boot on a single computer. Many
of us use email kind of like a telephone and we don't expect read messages
to persist longer than it takes us to read them; others - for business or
personal reasons - want to keep them for hours or days or weeks - or
permanently. And, especially while making the transition from OE to WM to
WLM, we may need to download the same messages into different systems. We
probably want one of those systems to hold our archives. If we don't "leave
messages on server" for at least a little while, there will be no way easy
to store them on our main (desktop?) computer if we've read them on our
other (laptop) computer or on a friend's computer.

Those reasons are why many of us are very happy to see "leave messages" as
the default. We've seen too many wails from users who lost important
messages during a transition because they forgot to change the previous
default while testing their new mail application.

Our standard advice for users trying to choose whether to transition to WLM
from WM or OE is to use both systems side by side for a few days - but make
sure both are set to leave messages, and that one of them is set to delete
messages after a week or two. So long as both apps are used at least once
in that time, the archives will remain complete but the server would not be
clogged with mail being kept "forever".

But the great thing is that the settings are optional and can be different
for each of my mail servers. ;<)

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64