MS Outlook accessing POP3
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Is it possible to configure MS Outlook to connect to a POP3 server and download messages from a folder other than the Inbox? If not, that blows, and someone needs to make a real e-mail program.
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Is it possible to configure MS Outlook to connect to a POP3 server and download messages from a folder other than the Inbox? If not, that blows, and someone needs to make a real e-mail program.
Since when did POP3 incorporate support for folders? Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
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Since when did POP3 incorporate support for folders? Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
I have been using yahoo for email. They have support for POP3 accounts, and thus you can use MS Outlook...etc to read your email. However, it will only download the messages from your Inbox, yet I want to download all the messages within each folder. To answer your question.. Now, I'm not sure what POP3 exactly means in terms of mail accounts, but the POP3 accounts I've always had have alllowed "pine" as a way to manage your email, and using it, you can create folders to save your message in...etc
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I have been using yahoo for email. They have support for POP3 accounts, and thus you can use MS Outlook...etc to read your email. However, it will only download the messages from your Inbox, yet I want to download all the messages within each folder. To answer your question.. Now, I'm not sure what POP3 exactly means in terms of mail accounts, but the POP3 accounts I've always had have alllowed "pine" as a way to manage your email, and using it, you can create folders to save your message in...etc
Web mail is a different story from POP3. Yahoo uses its own methods to store mail in different folders. Only the inbox is supposedly the mbox as far as POP3 is concerned. There is nothing wrong with POP3 or Outlook. It's just that, you are trying to mix the luxuries offered by web mail with your POP3 client. If you plan to POP your mail from yahoo using a POP3 client, then dont use folders. If you use folders then use only web mail. Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
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Is it possible to configure MS Outlook to connect to a POP3 server and download messages from a folder other than the Inbox? If not, that blows, and someone needs to make a real e-mail program.
Why don't you just upgrade to "imap" and Flag your messages ? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I live in Bob's HungOut now
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Why don't you just upgrade to "imap" and Flag your messages ? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I live in Bob's HungOut now
Cool! Smart idea Colin. Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
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Cool! Smart idea Colin. Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: Smart idea Colin. Thanks Nish ! I'd be real hot if I learn't to code oneday also :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I live in Bob's HungOut now
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I have been using yahoo for email. They have support for POP3 accounts, and thus you can use MS Outlook...etc to read your email. However, it will only download the messages from your Inbox, yet I want to download all the messages within each folder. To answer your question.. Now, I'm not sure what POP3 exactly means in terms of mail accounts, but the POP3 accounts I've always had have alllowed "pine" as a way to manage your email, and using it, you can create folders to save your message in...etc
You seem to be confused about what exactly POP3 is. When you mention "pine" you are probably referring to a unix account where you logged in and got your email. That wasn't POP3 at all. POP3 is a protocol used to connect to a remote server to download messages from your inbox. IMAP is another protocol which does allow more control over your different folders, but POP3 doesn't and never has. -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?
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Is it possible to configure MS Outlook to connect to a POP3 server and download messages from a folder other than the Inbox? If not, that blows, and someone needs to make a real e-mail program.
The problem isn't in Outlook. While it's easy to ask Outlook to fetch mail from a POP3 server, the protocol doesn't include any concept of folders. You get whatever the server sends you, and that's always going to be the inbox for the specified account. You can create a rule, though, on the receiving machine to have Outlook deliver the incoming mail to various folders, depending upon various criteria in your rule.
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Why don't you just upgrade to "imap" and Flag your messages ? Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
I live in Bob's HungOut now
One caveat though. IMAP is not intended to work in download and disconnect mode. You do have to be connected to the server to get maximum use. Outlook and Outlook Express do cache messages and allow disconnected operation (for previously read messages). If you have an always on connection then IMAP is the way to go. Suresh