Re: IMAP Folders - Local Copy

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OK, I unplug from the 'net and this is what happens

I only seem to have the headers, not the bodies - message is at top of message reading pane is

"This item cannot be displayed in the Reading Pane. Open the item to read its contents"

I double click the message and I get this dialogue message box

"This message has not been fully downloaded from the server. Would you like to mark it for download" Yes / No

This happens on all messages whether they were received or sent and irrespective of from where they were sent or first received; ie this DSL connected computer via Outlook, my satellite connected computer via Outlook or my laptop using the MSP's HTTP/HTML interface over dialup etc.

If I respond Yes to the ".... like to mark it for download", then I do get a local copy (when I restore the network) that I can read even if the network is subsequently "unplugged".

The default seems to be - no local copies of message bodies unless explicitly asked to download (and save). I would prefer that I do not have to explicitly ask that each message be downloaded and saved, but that it happen automatically - via a synchronisation process..

I would have thought that the default for IMAP accounts is that ,messages are NOT held locally. Is not that the main difference between IMAP & POP, the former stores your mail until you delete it, whilst the latter holds your mail for you pick it up, after which its gone - just like a Post Office Mail Box, which I guess is why they called it POP.

In Windows Live Mail the default is no local copies (not even headers). It can be overridden so that there is always a local copy of header & body of all messages - on my satellite connected computer it is this latter option I am looking for. I don't want to use Windows Live Mail, I want to use Outlook because it's a better mail client and because of its calendar that I synch with a Google calendar. so that I see the same calendar everywhere I go.

BTW - I gave up on trying to get Thunderbird to maintain a local copy of the IMAP folders, doing so caused TB to crash frequently (like every 10-15 minutes).
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TUT

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice there is." -- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
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"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" <tillman1952@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OnD5aCECJHA.4780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Urbane Tiger" <viking.warrior@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eYudnXMdM7yc3yjVnZ2dnUVZ_jadnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Is there a way I can have Outlook 2007 maintain a local copy of IMAP folders on my hard drive

Outlook always does.

If I lose network connectivity I can't see my IMAP folders, when I am on a satellite, sunspots, severe electrical storms, gamma ray bursters etc often take the bird down. Like most people I have info in my mail folders to which I need to refer for "local purposes". Also the satellite is slow due to signal propogation delay, having a local copy means no waits.

Are you subscribed to all of the folders you wish to see? Do you include them in the send/receive group?
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

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