rcolan said:
Thank you for your response. "Save copies of messages in sent items
folder" is checked.
I am wondering, since my sent messages are viewable on my desktop
computer (which is where I mailed them from), does this mean that
Outlook will only show messages that are sent from that particular
computer?
If you're using an ISP and your account is a POP account, ALL Outlook items
are local to the machine where Outlook runs. Your Sent Items folder is not
a server-based folder. The POP protocol doesn't have the concept of
"folders".
I was under the impression that Outlook took these messages
off my ISP so that they would be viewable on any computer that I used
to connect to my ISP.
Incoming messages are, indeed, stored on your ISP's server until you connect
and then they're usually downloaded to the connecting machine and removed
from the server, provided you don't have the "leave a copy on the server"
option checked.
Once the messages arive from your server, they are local to the machine that
downloaded them. Outgoing messages are always local to the machine that
sends them. Unless you network the two machines together and put a PST in a
shared location that both computers can access, there's no way for one to
see the mesasges on the other.
