"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
news:u$JNa1n5HHA.5424@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> "Lee" <Lee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F241C027-4E39-4BFF-B8DF-6D2E4161E582@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>>I used outlook, by default, to send an email. Right afterwards when i
>>checked
>> my earthlink email the inbox had been emptied. Yet all those emails were
>> sitting in theoutlook inbox. What is happening?[/color]
>
>
> If you are downloading from this account using the POP3 protocol, this is
> normal behaviour. There might be a way to change this in the options for
> your email account, on its website settings page, if there is one.
>
> If the email account can be accessed through the IMAP protocol instead,
> you may want to use that instead, as it offers more advanced features, at
> the sacrifice of speed.[/color]


Just to clarify, what you need to change, if possible, to your POP3 settings
is to make emails stay on the server after download. This can be done
through the web interface of your email service, or sometimes in the Outlook
properties for that account.

ss.