Re: oe downloads imap mail

From: Serhan BAKIR (serhan_at_stand.com.tr)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 01:48:44 +0300

Hi,
Thanks for your comprehensive answers but surprisingly synchronizing headers
did nothing different then synchronizing bodies. Let me explain the
situation clearly: I'm running a mail server and a separate terminal server
on the same network. Terminal users use OE for a shared imap account. When
they run OE to check email, every single mail is downloaded for a number of
users to their personal mail folders on terminal server. So let me say 1mb
of incoming email consumes 20mb on user folders and another 1mb on the mail
server. This means a huge loss of harddisk space for nothing. I've changed
the synchronization setting to headers for all imap folders but when the new
mail is viewed it's directly downloaded to local folder permanently and kept
there till the time it's deleted from server. It is really annoying; I
thought that running an email server and accessing it by imap protocol would
leave all the mail storage issues to the mail server. Do I misunderstand
something about imap or is that just it. It would be great if I could use it
just like web based mail. I mean download mail temporarily just to view it
and delete locally when you are done with that mail as if you are using
hotmail. Is there any way to do what I've mentioned? Thanx.

"N. Miller" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>, haber iletisinde sunlari
yazdi:MPG.1b69a82373682d7998a225@msnews.microsoft.com...
> In article <#Tl5f99bEHA.2812@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>, Serhan BAKIR says...
>
> > I'm using outlook express to check email from an imap account. I've
figured
> > out that OE not just shows the headers but downloads all of the e-mails
> > completely to the hard drive and keeps a copy of them.
>
> If you synchronize the email, yes, it does that. Or do you mean to say
that
> it is deleting the messages from the server?
>
> > - It's the same as using a pop3 account so what is the difference of pop
and
> > imap?
>
> POP3 deletes messages from the server, IMAP doesn't.
>
> > - And how do I make OE behave like a webmail.
>
> You don't; MSOE is a mail client. It keeps copies of email in local
storage.
> As long as the original message remains on the server, then things are
> working as they should be.
>
> > - How do I prevent OE from downloading and keeping copies of e-mails
from an
> > imap account.
>
> Don't synchronize the account.
>
> > - I'm using several different computers to check that account and I want
to
> > keep e-mails at the server side, not on every computer that I use. How??
>
> From the root folder of the account, your right side pane should show the
> "subscribed" folders. It should also show the synchronization settings for
> those folders. Across the top of that pane should be three buttons
labeled:
>
> "Synchronize Account", "IMAP Folders", and "Settings".
>
> For each folder, change the settings from "All Messages"; you have two
> choices: "New Messages" and "Headers only". Using the "Headers only"
setting
> should make your IMAP folders behave as close to a Hotmail account as it
> will get.
>
> > There is an option to automatically view the message or not, when
selected
> > from preview pane... but that's not the solution because when viewed, OE
> > downloads the message permanently. Is there a way to configure OE to
> > download the message bodies temporarily? Thanks for any answers and
advices.
>
> I don't know about temporarily. I haven't experimented with all of the
> settings, yet, either. Maybe try setting MSOE to purge the folders when it
> closes? Something like, synchronize the headers only, just read the ones
you
> want to read. Delete them when you are done, then close MSOE. With MSOE
set
> to purge the IMAP folders when it closes, the messages should be gone the
> next time you open MSOE. I think...{time to play...}
>
> --
> Norman
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