Posted on 06/23/2015 5:27:38 PM PDT by Chickensoup
Have three computers two laptops and an Asus minipad with touchscreen. The laptops run Win7 and Outlook 2003, the minipad runs Win8 and Outlook whatever came with it.
Have my 5 email addresses on the two laptops and one of the 5 addresses is on the minipad.
I thought that all the mail would download to all the computers all the time. Not so. Some mail goes to one laptop some mail goes to the other lap top and some mail goes to the minipad. And some mail goes to all.
Talked to Time-Warner, the said it was an Outlook problem. Called the nice man at Microsoft and he said the Outlook 2003 was the problem and it was not supported. I told him I owned 2007 and could we pretend we were talking about 2007 and he said no.
I told him at least we could do is talk about the Outlook on the minipad and he said call Asus.
They aren’t answering.
Is there someplace I can go on Outlook 2003 and make all the mail go to all the computers all of the time?
I apologize, this is convoluted.
Have my 5 email addresses on the two laptops and one of the 5 addresses is on the minipad.
I thought that all the mail would download to all the computers all the time. Not so. Some mail goes to one laptop some mail goes to the other lap top and some mail goes to the minipad. And some mail goes to all.
Talked to Time-Warner, the said it was an Outlook problem. Called the nice man at Microsoft and he said the Outlook 2003 was the problem and it was not supported. I told him I owned 2007 and could we pretend we were talking about 2007 and he said no.
I told him at least we could do is talk about the Outlook on the minipad and he said call Asus.
They aren’t answering.
Is there someplace I can go on Outlook 2003 and make all the mail go to all the computers all of the time?
I apologize, this is convoluted.
one pingy-dingy, two pingy-dingies...
ping?
Have you checked with Hillary?
She’s good at hiding emails.
:-)
When an email client is set up using the POP3 mail protocol, it downloads the latest email it sees when it hits the mail server, and the server then deletes it. When the client is set up with the IMAP4 mail protocol, it downloads the email but the server retains it, where it can be downloaded by the next client set up for that protocol. That'd be something to check in your Outlook clients, because if some of them are set up with POP they'll be the only ones to get any specific email, where the ones set up with IMAP will download and it'll still be on the server when the next client logs in, which sounds like your symptoms.
Best of luck!
There are several fixes on the internet. Did you google?
Hillary Clinton? Never thought of it but...
Sounds like ‘settings’ problems.
Select one computer to be the master. Only use the ‘delete emails from the server’ on this master computer. Make sure that none of the other computers are set to delete emails from the server.
Check the settings of the others. You probably need to add the other email servers to some of them. Some emails services require a fee for general downloading to various computers, if you do not go through their website. Yahoo is one that does.
I put that poorly - it’s simply that POP clients tell the server to delete email once it’s sent, and IMAP clients don’t.
All the emails say POP3
I Startpaged. I couldn’t find anything.
Where do you find “delete emails from server” in Outlook 2003?
I use time warner. No fee.
Do you know whether Outlook 2003 can use IMAP?
I have been CHEEZED!! Less time than usual, too!
This is stuff of national import!
Bingo. In the setup there will likely be a place to input mail server. Typically your mail vendor will have a different address for POP and IMAP mail servers, so you’d want to check with the vendor for the proper one. Hope that’s it, because it’s an easy fix.
I believe my old one did. It's a very standard protocol.
Be sure you set up the Outlook accounts on all the computers to leave mail on the server and specify how many days to leave it. You may also have to tweak settings on your ISP webmail account.
With the POP3 protocol, it is possible to tell the server to retain the email.
Whether the version of Outlook the OP is using offers this option is another question. But in a POP3 protocol dialogue, the download of the email and the delete of the email from the server are two separate commands.
Hi Chickensoup.
Ummm, how much of the Windows Ping List membership did you include in your comment #3 above? If you've already included the whole list, I don't want to duplicate it.
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