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Re: Changing settings so copies of emails not left on server? helpplease
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 18 January 11 20:58 GMT (UK) »
Hello Adam,

The short answer is "you cannot do what you are hoping to do". If you import mail from other sources then it is quite possible to tick the box (or not as you wish) to keep mail on the server or not.

However, the page with this particular box to tick does not show up when you are dealing with Windows Live Mail itself.

Go onto the Windows Live website and delete a few mails there and then check back to the mail viewer you have on your computer to make sure that those mails have not also been deleted from your hard disk. This is all to do with the way the email files are viewed and is quite complicated. So, if you have no problems deleting a couple of mails, I won't go into it.

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Re: Changing settings so copies of emails not left on server? helpplease
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 19 January 11 14:47 GMT (UK) »
Sometimes its useful to have e-mails left on the server.  Before I was with Virgin (who do keep e-mails on the server), I lost a whole bunch of e-mails that I wanted as they were to do with my family history and I had to pay out for a program that would retrieve them all.  It did retrieve them, plus all the other 100s of e-mails I genuinely wanted deleted!! It's taken me years to go through them all because they just come back with numbers in the title, rather than the original message title.

Now I use Virginmedia, when I accidentally deleted a couple of e-mails a few months back, I just went to the Virgin server, found the e-mails and sent them to myself again.  Problem solved.  I do delete some of the very old ones on the server sometimes but as, at the moment,  there are 8317 on there and they are only using 3% of the MBs involved, it doesn't seem worth it.

Lizzie
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