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Originally Posted by Atomic22
yeh i thought that at well.........if i choose to "not download" them and they sit on the server does outlook attempt to download the same emails every time i click send/receive ?
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AFAIK the email client downloads a copy of the email's headers (the part of an email that specifies the subject, sender, recipient, and so on). The email body stays on the server. The client doesn't keep trying to download the email. If you select to download the email the client will (should) remove the email from the server and put it on your PC. If you select the "leave [a copy] on server" option, the client downloads a copy of the email and leaves the original on the server.
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Originally Posted by alanf617
I think you can create a few other folders on NTL, but I presume that they will count towards your total usage. Useful if you want to store something and download it to another computer via the webmail option at the NTL website
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Yes - all emails within an account, regardless of which folder they're in, count towards the quota.
The way I do it is to specify a default of "leave messages on server... delete when deleted from trash". This is useful if, like alanf617 says, you want to access your emails from elsewhere. Emails are still downloaded to my PC, so when NTL deletes emails after 90 days I still have a copy, and when I delete an email from my PC it's also deleted from the server. I have rules that move spam and emails from various mailing lists to named folders (BCS list emails go in the BCS folder, and so on). As part of each rule I specify that the emails should be deleted from the server - this prevents the account going over quota.
My email client is The Bat!.