How to download email from other than a Website input folder

[Ray Pixley]

How can Outlook 2003 be made to download email in web site folders, like at
hotmail, other than the hotmail input folder?

Because of all the spam (despite the filters) and the legitimate email I get
tends to be needed only short term, I use the various web sites for reviewing
mail and end up deleting such email after a short time. But there are some
emails I want to archive, and at the moment I do that by moving them to an
on-line (hotmail) folder. I want to be able to have Outlook download
whatever is in that on-line (hotmail) folder instead of the default input
folder. Moving the files to the input folder and downloading from that
folder is not acceptable, I'll get too many unwanted emails that I have
already hand filtered out or arrives while the download is in progress.

Thanks

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You mean download mail from folders other than the Inbox folder?
That is supported for Hotmail/Live/MSN accounts, IMAP accounts and Exchange
accounts. It is not supported for POP3 account. This is a limitation of the
protocol and not Outlook.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

If you use HTTP or Outlook connector, it should download all
Hotmail/MSN/Live mail folders. for other accounts, like with your isp, you
need to use IMAP as POP3 is inbox only.









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[VanguardLH]

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How can Outlook 2003 be made to download email in web site folders,
like at
hotmail, other than the hotmail input folder?

Because of all the spam (despite the filters) and the legitimate
email I get
tends to be needed only short term, I use the various web sites for
reviewing
mail and end up deleting such email after a short time. But there
are some
emails I want to archive, and at the moment I do that by moving them
to an
on-line (hotmail) folder. I want to be able to have Outlook
download
whatever is in that on-line (hotmail) folder instead of the default
input
folder. Moving the files to the input folder and downloading from
that
folder is not acceptable, I'll get too many unwanted emails that I
have
already hand filtered out or arrives while the download is in
progress.

POP only understands the concept of a mailbox. There is just one
mailbox. There are no folders in that mailbox. Just because Outlook
calls its local folder "Inbox" and the webmail interface to your
account has server-side folders of which one is called "Inbox" has no
bearing that your POP account provides just one container from which
to retrieve e-mails: the mailbox.

If you want to synchronize your local e-mail client's "folders" with
the server-side "folders", like you see when using a webmail interface
to your account, you need to use a protocol that supports the concept
of folders within a mailbox. Start checking if your e-mail providers
supports IMAP accounts. The older Post Office Protocol only knows
about the mailbox container with no hierarchical structuring via
folders.

I don't use IMAP (mostly because my ISP doesn't provide IMAP support).
As I recall, once you define a new IMAP account, you will get queried
if you want your e-mail client to poll your IMAP account to retrieve a
list of the folders currently defined for your server-side mailbox.
If you create a new folder using the webmail interface to your IMAP
account, you may have to re-sync your local IMAP account to include
that new folder. Even if you sync your local e-mail client to the
server-side IMAP folders set, that doesn't mean you have to sync to
all those folders. You can select some that you never want to bother
with, like the Trash folder.

 

[Ray Pixley]

It turns out my ISP doesn't support IMAP, but what is even more amazing is
that their help pages says it does support IMAP. I'll try the other methods
suggested on my MSN account, although I'd rather have them on my ISP account.

 

[Ray Pixley]

I tried HTTP on MSN, and it wanted to download all of the folders, which is
not what I want. I want to download only certain folders. I did find a
setting that checked off downloading certain folders, but for some reason
they won't download despite being checked.

Where would I find information on the "outlook connector" you mentioned?