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

[Gene]

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?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

That is the way a HTTP account works; you cache the message, you do not
store the message. It very different from the POP3 account you got from your
ISP. You can use a third party tool like Hotmail Popper to "emulate" a POP3
server for Hotmail so you can directly store to a personal folder.

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[Brian Tillman]

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.

The difference here is that Hotmail is an HTTP connection, whereas the one
you used before was a POP connection. The nature of POP is to physically
move the message from the POP server to your mail client and delete it from
the server. The nature of HTTP mail is for your mail client to just show
you what's on the server without permanently moving it from the server to
the client. Thus, for all practical purposes, your Hotmail messages are NOT
stored in Outlook. Deleting them on Hotmail deletes them from the server
and so Outlook has nothing to show you anymore.

What I have now is just the opposite of that, cleaning
the Hotmail server also deletes from Outlook 2003.

They were never (permanently) in Outlook in the first place. Outlook just
shows you what's on the server. Deleting it on the server prevents you from
seeing it.

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.

If you want your messages to be stored locally, you have to move them to a
local store. In Outlook, that's a "Personal Folders File" I don't know of
any more "elegant" method than what you describe above. It's how Hotmail
works, unless you switch to using POP to access Hotmail and I don't know if
that access is available on Hotmail.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Kinda what I said :-D

And no, there is no POP server for Hotmail

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