Why does deleting email in Hotmail also delete from Outlook 2003?

[Guest]

And more important, how do I stop this. With Outlook 2000 and a non-Hotmail
ISP I configured Outlook2k to delete email from the server when email was
deleted from the Outlook trash. I'd like to do this with Outlook 2003 and
Hotmail.



What I have now is just the opposite of that, cleaning the Hotmail server
also deletes from Outlook 2003. I'd like to turn that off. Only suggestion I
saw on this forum was to create a new personal file in Outlook 2003, and
move each Hotmail message into the new file, 'prior' to deleting from the
Hotmail server. There has to be a more elegant way of doing this.



Thoughts?

 

[Diane Poremsky]

Hotmail is a server based mailbox - Outlook syncs with the server and keeps
a copy on the local drive for offline use. The behavior you see is expected,
since outlook is a replica of the server. If you need to keep a copy
locally, you'll need to move the messages to a new personal folder or not
delete them from hotmail.