POP3 stole all my email from work

[jeffhanson7183]

Hi,

I wanted to see all my work email at home as well as in the office, so
i gathered the necessary info to set up my company email as a POP3
account at home and set it up. It downloaded all 318 items from my
inbox and i thought everything was ok. when i got into work this
morning my entire inbox was all gone. A co worker (who apparently knows
a bit about computers or at least email) claimed i should have checked
the option "leave mail on serer" which i didnt know about obviously. So
is there anyway for me to get my email back to the exchange server at
work, or at least my work computer by using the internet? i simply dont
have any practical way of transporting it back otherwise. Thanks in
advance for any help.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

your co-worker is correct.

What type of email server is used at work? Do you also have imap or OWA
access? If yes, you can move the messages back easily. If not, it can be
done but it's a PITA for the most part - one method is to email the messages
back to yourself as attachments, then drag and drop them back into the email
box.



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[Noel All]

If you just wanted just email at home (as opposed to Contacts, Calendar etc)
then you should have set up an IMAP connection), is there anyway you can
copy the pst to a cd and copy to your hard drive on the works computer
(remembering to remove the Read Only property), then use the file open
outlook data file command in Outlook and then drag and drop from the pst to
your works mailbox.

 

[jeffhanson7183]

Yes we do have OWA, although i dont know what IMAP is. By using OWA can
i somehow copy them back to my computer at work? another question to
is, is it going to keep pulling my copies from the server until i
select that option, or only if i do a send / receive?

 

[jeffhanson7183]

yeah, i suppose i could do that. i would simply go to file, archive,
back up the entire inbox to a pst, and then when i bring it to work
import the pst, is that what you mean?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Assuming you have outlook 2002 or 2003:

First, enable leave mail on server or remove the account from outlook
(control panel, mail - leave on server is under more options) - otherwise,
you'll keep downloading it.

Create an account in Outlook for the HTTP type. Use your full OWA url,
including the mailbox name. Drag the items from the personal folders to the
OWA inbox.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2005/20050322.htm




--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/

 

[Noel All]

Did you set up a new profile at home or did you download the mails to an
existing profile, if the first you could just take make a copy of the
existing pst. Or as Diane suggested you could create an IMAP connection to
work (if available) and drag/drop into this, this IMAP connection should
then synchronise with work oh and you need to disable the POP3 account that
you created.

 

[Brian Tillman]

yeah, i suppose i could do that. i would simply go to file, archive,
back up the entire inbox to a pst, and then when i bring it to work
import the pst, is that what you mean?

File>Archive doesn't make backups. WIth Outlook closed, just copy the PST
you're using at home.