mystro said:
I installed outlook on a new PC and brought in my emails. Now, all the
emails have disappeared from the server (webmail.) What happened, how can I
get them back on the webmail server?
POP access defaults to issuing a RETR (retrieve) followed by a DELE
(delete). So after the message gets retrieved, it then gets deleted.
If you don't want that normal POP behavior, you have to configure the
e-mail account you defined in Outlook to "leave messages on server".
Once you choose to leave messages on the server after retrieving them,
they will be accessible to other POP e-mail clients that connect to the
same mailbox. However, because the messages are not getting deleted,
you will have to perform manual cleanup at periodic intervals. If you
don't do the cleanup (by deleting e-mails) on your mailbox on the
server, all your disk quota will get consumed and then no further
incoming e-mails can be accepted.
You can configure the e-mail account defined in Outlook to delete the
messages N days after retrieving them. Then they'll stay around on the
server in your mailbox for the specified duration but eventually get
deleted. So during that interval, you can retrieve those e-mails using
other e-mail clients; however, eventually they get deleted from your
mailbox on the server to prevent eating up all the disk space allotted
to your account.
Now that you retrieved them all into Outlook (and then followed with the
default POP action of deleting them afterward), you'll have to resend
them all to yourself to get them back up in your mailbox on the server.
However, because you are sending those e-mails, the headers in those
e-mails received in your mailbox will show they came from you and were
sent to you. You will need to attached the original e-mails when you
forward them to yourself. Then the original headers are kept with the
original e-mail (but you'll have to open your self-sent e-mails to open
the attachment to then see the headers in the original e-mail).
