How do I get pop e-mail when offline?

[ajohnson]

I have work e-mail from Exchange and a couple of home e-mails with POP3. I
want to access the home e-mails when I am offline from Exchange. I am not
using Cached mode (i.e., no .ost, just .pst) and want to stay that way. When
offline, Send/Receive seems to go check the POP3 accounts for mail, but no
new mail is put into my Personal Folder Inbox. I have tried changing the POP3
mail delivery to a separate .pst file Inbox, but that doesn't work either.
Help!

 

[N. Miller]

I have work e-mail from Exchange and a couple of home e-mails with POP3. I
want to access the home e-mails when I am offline from Exchange. I am not
using Cached mode (i.e., no .ost, just .pst) and want to stay that way. When
offline, Send/Receive seems to go check the POP3 accounts for mail, but no
new mail is put into my Personal Folder Inbox. I have tried changing the POP3
mail delivery to a separate .pst file Inbox, but that doesn't work either.
Help!

You don't. You have to be able to connect to the POP3 server to fetch the
email, which requires that you be online.

 

[ajohnson]

You don't. You have to be able to connect to the POP3 server to fetch the
email, which requires that you be online.

Whether I'm online with Exchange or not doesn't (or shouldn't) have any
bearing on whether I can connect to the POP3 e-mail accounts or not. In fact,
I can send e-mails through them when Outlook is "offline", so I know that
Outlook is connecting. And, I get no errors when it tries to do an SMTP
receive to the POP3 accounts. The problem is that the e-mails that I know are
on the POP3 server are not put into the PST Inbox which Outlook has access to.

I found a partial workaround in another post. I can create a second Outlook
profile which only contains the POP3 accounts and does not contain the
Exchange account. This allows me to get mail from the POP3 account when
Outlook is "offline". However, I have to leave e-mails on the POP3 accounts
for a period of time so they will be picked up by my BlackBerry. When I
switch profiles, the new profile doesn't seem to know that the POP3 e-mails
have already been retrieved so it retrieves them again. That's a little
inconvenient, but acceptable. I just need to delete the duplicate e-mails
from my Inbox.

However, Outlook gives enough control over the parameters that I think all
this should work without the workaround ... and I believe that this must be
an Outlook bug.

 

[N. Miller]

"N. Miller" wrote:

Whether I'm online with Exchange or not doesn't (or shouldn't) have any
bearing on whether I can connect to the POP3 e-mail accounts or not. In fact,
I can send e-mails through them when Outlook is "offline", so I know that
Outlook is connecting. And, I get no errors when it tries to do an SMTP
receive to the POP3 accounts. The problem is that the e-mails that I know are
on the POP3 server are not put into the PST Inbox which Outlook has access to.

I found a partial workaround in another post. I can create a second Outlook
profile which only contains the POP3 accounts and does not contain the
Exchange account. This allows me to get mail from the POP3 account when
Outlook is "offline". However, I have to leave e-mails on the POP3 accounts
for a period of time so they will be picked up by my BlackBerry. When I
switch profiles, the new profile doesn't seem to know that the POP3 e-mails
have already been retrieved so it retrieves them again. That's a little
inconvenient, but acceptable. I just need to delete the duplicate e-mails
from my Inbox.

However, Outlook gives enough control over the parameters that I think all
this should work without the workaround ... and I believe that this must be
an Outlook bug.

I guess I am not clear about the concept of "working online". I was under
the impression that you had to be "working online" to reach a remote server;
even if the remote server is just another computer parked out in the garage
(as is the case with my server, Mercury/32, which is not running on the
local computer in the family room, but on a computer literally out in the
garage).

I don't worry about "leaving messages on the server". Mercury/32 includes an
IMAP server. All of my messages are stored on the computer out in the
garage. I don't use POP3 to access them. Pegasus Mail doesn't require either
POP3, or IMAP, to locate messages stored out there, that computer is part of
the Pegasus Mail message store. If I want to play with another client, such
as Windows Live Mail, I just set up access using IMAP. No duplicate
downloads.