My pst grew too large and I had to get rid of a bunch of messages.I was able
to do this and access the purged .pst file. Problem is that Outlook
re-downloads all of the messages, even the ones that are already in the in
box. Is there a way to tell outlook to only download messages that would not
be dupes?. Submitted using
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If Outlook is downloading all previous messqages, then you did more that
simply delete older messages. Something has damaged the information in the
mail profile that Outlook uses to remember what has been downloaded. If this
happened to me, I'd to one of two things: the first is to create a new, empty
PST, make that PST my delivery location, allow Outlook to download all the
messages to that PST, then switch the delivery location back to the original
PST. The second would be to log into the mailbox on the server using a web
interface, create a new server folder, and move all the old messages in the
Inbox to that new folder. Since POP has no ability to see messages in any
folder but Inbox, Outlook will not know there are other messages on the server
and won't download them. New messages coming into the server mailbox,
however, will be placed into the mailbox's Inbox and Outlook will see those.
You'll be able to access all the old ones online if you need to and, of
course, they'll still be in Outlook's local folders.