Outlook 2003 / hotmail account

[N. Miller]

Thanks again for the carification. I only was going by what I could see on
screen. As Brian has already said when I look at my outlook connecter
settings it was showing up a an MAPI account, which I incorrectly referred to
as the protocol.

I don't use either Outlook, or the Outlook Connector. For what I use, either
POP3, or HTTPMail (w/DeltaSync) are all that there is for Hotmail. Based on
Brian Tillman's response about my MAPI comments, I will assume that the
Outlook Connector is using MAPI to link what it is doing (accessing Hotmail
using DeltaSync) to the client (Outlook). I do know that MAPI is an
application to client protocol, and I've used it with a couple of
applications, for calling an email client. So MAPI is probably a local
connection between the Outlook Connector and MS Outlook.

You are also correct in that any emails I didn't manually download to my
laptop cannot be accessed in any way chape or form that I know of. I guess
that'll teach me to ignore those annoying warning emails from Microsoft in
the future. It is kinda sad though as I had thought I set outlook to
download ALL my emails.

Just to clarify: If you have email in local Hotmail folders, which don't
exist on the Hotmail servers, I don't know of any way to access them
directly, now that WebDAV is deactivated. When they flipped the switch on
Sept. 1, 2009, I could not even view the email in my Hotmail folders with MS
Outlook Express; probably because I had not set OE for offline viewing of
email. All OE wanted to do was try to connect to the servers. However, I had
only synchronized that account, so all email that had been in OE was also
still on the Hotmail servers. I've got no idea how Outlook worked, in that
regard.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

You are also correct in that any emails I didn't manually download to my
laptop cannot be accessed in any way chape or form that I know of. I guess
that'll teach me to ignore those annoying warning emails from Microsoft in
the future. It is kinda sad though as I had thought I set outlook to
download ALL my emails.

I'll have to test this with my Hotmail account. For IMAP accounts you need to
be on line to manipulate messages in the folders even though IMAP keeps local
copies of folder just like the Hotmail Connector does. I suspect the Outlook
Connector behaves similarly, but I can verify it when I'm home.

 

[heather]

Jay - I understand what you are referencing and it sounds like Outlook
created another .pst file for the new connection. I believe that your .pst
files need to be merged. I am trying to do something similar and found your
message while trying locate instructions on merging the data so I don't lose
any of the old and new emails.

- heather

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I'll have to test this with my Hotmail account. For IMAP accounts you need
to be on line to manipulate messages in the folders even though IMAP keeps
local copies of folder just like the Hotmail Connector does. I suspect the
Outlook Connector behaves similarly, but I can verify it when I'm home.

I did try this for a while this past weekend and found that even while
offline, I could manipulate messages in the Hotmail cache and then when I went
online, they synched.