Laptop accumulating emails

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Michael

I have a friend who used a laptop for 3 years in his office as his main
computer on a wireless network. He naturally used it for his email. Outlook
2007 was set up to NOT leave a copy of messages on the server.

About 8 months ago, he switched over to a desktop. The laptop remained in
the office but was used rarely. Outlook was never opened since he switched to
the desktop.

A few days ago, he went on a business trip and took his laptop with him.
When he opened Outlook, which was set up to automatically download emails,
1839 emails downloaded (which took a few hours). He gets a lot of spam but
some of these were legitimate emails. The downloading emails only went back a
couple of months - emails that were already downloaded to his desktop.

Does anyone know or can speculate why the laptop would have accomulated all
these emails?
 
Easily explained if the desktop he switched to was set to leave messages on
the server.
 

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