Laptop accumulating emails

M

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?
 
D

dlw

Easily explained if the desktop he switched to was set to leave messages on
the server.
 

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