Large mail folder?

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Charles W Davis

Office Outlook 2007, Windows Vista Ultimate. Both fully updated.

On and off for the past year or two I have "lost" incoming mail. Much of it
of rather significant importance.

Today, I happened to look at the bottom of my long list of folders. Whoa! I
said to myself. What is this folder called "Large Mail?" Yep all of the lost
incoming messages. Yes, many are 8, 7, 6, and 5 MB in size. I have a
commercial account.

Is there a way to create a rule to cause these to be placed either in the
Inbox. or prefereably in the folders that I have created rules to receive
various senders mail?

Thanks,
 
Is it a folder or a search folder?

How do you have the acct configured? Do you use work offline or cached
mode? The large mail rule is normally used when working remotely with a slow
connection - larger messages are moved to it so not to slow down mail
retrieval when using a slow external connection.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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Diane,
I didn't notice, but I believe that it is a search folder.
http://www.anthemwebs.com/images/12.jpg
That explains the reason that some are available in the inbox.
I never work offline or in a cached mode. No slow connection: 12Mbps
download speed.
With your questioning, I guess that there is nothing to be concerned about.
But there is still the nagging problem of my not receiving some.

Diane Poremsky said:
Is it a folder or a search folder?

How do you have the acct configured? Do you use work offline or cached
mode? The large mail rule is normally used when working remotely with a
slow connection - larger messages are moved to it so not to slow down mail
retrieval when using a slow external connection.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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Charles W Davis said:
Office Outlook 2007, Windows Vista Ultimate. Both fully updated.

On and off for the past year or two I have "lost" incoming mail. Much of
it of rather significant importance.

Today, I happened to look at the bottom of my long list of folders. Whoa!
I said to myself. What is this folder called "Large Mail?" Yep all of the
lost incoming messages. Yes, many are 8, 7, 6, and 5 MB in size. I have a
commercial account.

Is there a way to create a rule to cause these to be placed either in the
Inbox. or prefereably in the folders that I have created rules to receive
various senders mail?

Thanks,
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Yes, that is the search folder. Do the sync errors give you any clues? They
are often for the calendar, not mail, though.

Have you looked in the junk folder for the missing mail? Are you sure it hit
the mailbox and wasn't lost before it got to you? (junk & virus filter
dropped it before it hit the server etc )

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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Charles W Davis said:
Diane,
I didn't notice, but I believe that it is a search folder.
http://www.anthemwebs.com/images/12.jpg
That explains the reason that some are available in the inbox.
I never work offline or in a cached mode. No slow connection: 12Mbps
download speed.
With your questioning, I guess that there is nothing to be concerned
about. But there is still the nagging problem of my not receiving some.

Diane Poremsky said:
Is it a folder or a search folder?

How do you have the acct configured? Do you use work offline or cached
mode? The large mail rule is normally used when working remotely with a
slow connection - larger messages are moved to it so not to slow down
mail retrieval when using a slow external connection.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

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Charles W Davis said:
Office Outlook 2007, Windows Vista Ultimate. Both fully updated.

On and off for the past year or two I have "lost" incoming mail. Much of
it of rather significant importance.

Today, I happened to look at the bottom of my long list of folders.
Whoa! I said to myself. What is this folder called "Large Mail?" Yep all
of the lost incoming messages. Yes, many are 8, 7, 6, and 5 MB in size.
I have a commercial account.

Is there a way to create a rule to cause these to be placed either in
the Inbox. or prefereably in the folders that I have created rules to
receive various senders mail?

Thanks,
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Today, I happened to look at the bottom of my long list of folders. Whoa!
I said to myself. What is this folder called "Large Mail?" Yep all of the
lost incoming messages. Yes, many are 8, 7, 6, and 5 MB in size. I have a
commercial account.
Click to expand...

Where does the Large Mail folder say your messages are? There'll be an "In
Folder" column.
 
Diane,

Thanks for your comments. The junk folder only contains eastern Asian
glyphs. I am beginning to get the idea that there may have been no missing
messages, only missing senders...
Diane Poremsky said:
Yes, that is the search folder. Do the sync errors give you any clues?
They are often for the calendar, not mail, though.

Have you looked in the junk folder for the missing mail? Are you sure it
hit the mailbox and wasn't lost before it got to you? (junk & virus filter
dropped it before it hit the server etc )

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

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Charles W Davis said:
Diane,
I didn't notice, but I believe that it is a search folder.
http://www.anthemwebs.com/images/12.jpg
That explains the reason that some are available in the inbox.
I never work offline or in a cached mode. No slow connection: 12Mbps
download speed.
With your questioning, I guess that there is nothing to be concerned
about. But there is still the nagging problem of my not receiving some.

Diane Poremsky said:
Is it a folder or a search folder?

How do you have the acct configured? Do you use work offline or cached
mode? The large mail rule is normally used when working remotely with a
slow connection - larger messages are moved to it so not to slow down
mail retrieval when using a slow external connection.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
(e-mail address removed)

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx or point
your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


Office Outlook 2007, Windows Vista Ultimate. Both fully updated.

On and off for the past year or two I have "lost" incoming mail. Much
of it of rather significant importance.

Today, I happened to look at the bottom of my long list of folders.
Whoa! I said to myself. What is this folder called "Large Mail?" Yep
all of the lost incoming messages. Yes, many are 8, 7, 6, and 5 MB in
size. I have a commercial account.

Is there a way to create a rule to cause these to be placed either in
the Inbox. or prefereably in the folders that I have created rules to
receive various senders mail?

Thanks,
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