Rob said:
Hey,
I have a friend who recently got Outlook and is using her AOL email with the program. AOL dumps all her email to the outlook box, and it leaves her AOL inbox empty. I didn't find any option to avoid this in her AOL account settings.
How can she access her email from outside home if the computer she is using doesn't have outlook on it?
Thanks!
Alas, another FUDforum user posting overly long physical lines. Maybe
FUDforum will someday fix their forum-to-Usenet gateway.
--- FUDforum: Uses a gateway to copy their forum posts to Usenet.
Please inform the administrator or moderators of your FUDforum to fix
their forum-to-Usenet gateway. Their forum posts are 1 physical line
per paragraph and assume the reader application will perform automatic
logical line wrapping. The result is their posts consist of single very
long lines that are hundreds of characters long. Newsgroups posts
should physically line-wrap at 76 characters, or less. They must also
be under 998 characters in maximum length to be RFC compliant. Ask your
FUDforum admin or moderator to be polite when gatewaying their posts to
Usenet by reformatting their posts before dumping them in newsgroups.
--- FUDforum: Borrowing Usenet to pretend they have a larger community.
She will use the webmail interface to her e-mail account to access it
when not at home and where an e-mail client is not installed on the
outside host (or she doesn't want to or isn't allowed to install
software on it).
If she wants to read e-mails in a local POP e-mail client but also see
them when using the webmail interface, have her configure her e-mail
client to "leave message on server". The default behavior for POP is to
retrieve a message and then delete it. You, er, she wants to retrieve a
copy into Outlook but NOT delete it (i.e., leave it on the server).
She might also want to consider using IMAP to access her e-mail account
rather than use POP. POP only understands the concept of a mailbox.
There are no folders in a mailbox, just the mailbox. IMAP understands
folders, so Outlook would sync with the IMAP account and show the same
folders as she has when using the webmail interface. See
http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/. Every IMAP e-mail
client will see the same set of folders and the same set of messages in
them whether it is at home, work, travelling, or wherever. If an IMAP
e-mail client is available on the host, or she doesn't want a copy of
her e-mail on that host, she'll be using the webmail interface to her
account.
