Old mail

[Andy B]

I've just purchased a new PC, built for me by a friend who's very good at
that sort of thing! I've set up my internet and email accounts, and was
wondering whether my ISP are likely to hold all my old email messages which I
received whilst working with my old PC, or whether they are stored somewhere
on the PC itself. Windows Mail is showing me new mail received today, but no
old messages. I would have thought the ISP would have them. Is there any way
to retrieve them through Windows Mail? My old PC is pretty much fried,
physically, so can't go back to it! Thanks everyone

Andy

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Are we talking about a POP account? If so, the default for POP accounts
is that mail will be deleted from the server after it is downloaded.
To see if the old messages are still there, you can look in the mailbox
on the server via webmail. If not there, they will be on the old PC only.
Since you have a savvy friend, he should be able to take the old hard
drive out of the old PC and hook it up as a slave drive to a good PC
long enough to retrieve the old emails.

 

[Guest]

I've just purchased a new PC, built for me by a friend who's very good at
that sort of thing! I've set up my internet and email accounts, and was
wondering whether my ISP are likely to hold all my old email messages
which I
received whilst working with my old PC, or whether they are stored
somewhere
on the PC itself. Windows Mail is showing me new mail received today, but
no
old messages. I would have thought the ISP would have them. Is there any
way
to retrieve them through Windows Mail? My old PC is pretty much fried,
physically, so can't go back to it! Thanks everyone

Andy

Depends on whether you were using the IMAP connection method or the POP
method, and whether you used the setting to save copies of the messages on
the server.

 

[Steve Cochran]

The mail is probably removed from the server when you download it. You can
set that under Tools | Accounts | Mail | Properties | Advanced.

Your old mail is probably in OE dbx files on the old hard drive. See
www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx

steve