Re: Prevent download from the server - POP account

From: Jeff Stephenson [MSFT] (stephenson_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:10:10 -0700

The way you're doing it (using rules to sort the mail once downloaded) is
the only way to do this. Yes, you can read each other's mail, but if you're
sharing a mailbox at your ISP there's no way to prevent that other than
trust. If you really want your mail to be kept separate, you should see
about getting separate mailboxes at your ISP. 

-- 
Jeff Stephenson
Outlook Development
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"Steve" <Steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9FAC13DB-55C9-4674-A19D-AFD4055B39DA@microsoft.com...
> In Outlook Express I was able to create a message rule which contained the
> condition "do not download from server". This has apparently been dropped
as
> a condition in Outlook 2003 message rules.
> My wife & I share the same POP email account but we denote separate mail
by
> having our name as a prefix to the account i.e. steve@thingy.co.uk  or
> liz@thingy.co.uk. We log on to our pc with our own user accounts. I have
used
> separate folders to store our individual e-mail messages, creating a
message
> rule that sorts the various mail after downloading from the server, but
this
> seems messy, and of course we can read eachothers mail. Does anyone know
how
> to make Outlook only download the messages addressed to me from the server
> and leave the others on the server? Or do you have to download all the
> messages and then somehow sort them on your PC?

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