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Michael Paul
I hope this assists someone who has just downloaded their web-based
email account into Outlook with the hope of viewing mail both on the
web and within Outlook.
If you have ever set up Outlook 2003 to download your web-based email
and are now in the predicament where all your web-based email is gone--
because it now sits on your computer's Outlook Inbox instead--and you
want to get all your email back into your web-based inbox so you can
read it both on the web and in Outlook, there is still hope--provided
your web-based server uses the IMAP protocol.
Here's how to restore your web-based inbox:
1.) Confirm that your web-based mail service utilizes the IMAP
protocol. If POP protocol is your only choice, you're out of luck. If
you're not sure how to find out, just go to your mail provider's help
section and type in IMAP. See what comes up.
2.) In Outlook, add a new email account that utilizes the IMAP
protocol, with the login information of the account you want to
recover. Tools > E-Mail Accounts > Add a new e-mail account
3.) Drag and drop all your downloaded email from Outlook's Inbox to
the Inbox of the IMAP account you just created.
Done.
My girlfriend works for a woman who uses AOL Mail (web-based) but
wanted to test Outlook 2003. Not fully understanding it, the woman
instructed my girlfriend to download all messages into Outlook.
*Poof*, all web messages were then deleted after Outlook downloaded
them. Horrified, the woman instructed my girlfriend to "put them back"
-- all 700+ of them. At first she tried forwarding one at a time, but
this was not acceptable since it all appeared to be coming From:
ThisWoman, To: ThisWoman. Of course, this makes things confusing.
Plus, the message date is the date it was forwarded. Not good.
So, after some thinking, I said "why not mount the web-based mail
account to Outlook, and drag and drop?" Guess what? It worked. We drag-
and-dropped all her messages back in (30 at a time to be safe) and
problem solved.
Granted, this is not a way for you to "forward" multiple messages to
someone, but it is a way to restore your web mail account in the event
you lose all your mail after downloading into Outlook.
Further note: if you want to download your web-based mail and leave a
copy on the server, you're able to do that by going to Tools > Options
email account into Outlook with the hope of viewing mail both on the
web and within Outlook.
If you have ever set up Outlook 2003 to download your web-based email
and are now in the predicament where all your web-based email is gone--
because it now sits on your computer's Outlook Inbox instead--and you
want to get all your email back into your web-based inbox so you can
read it both on the web and in Outlook, there is still hope--provided
your web-based server uses the IMAP protocol.
Here's how to restore your web-based inbox:
1.) Confirm that your web-based mail service utilizes the IMAP
protocol. If POP protocol is your only choice, you're out of luck. If
you're not sure how to find out, just go to your mail provider's help
section and type in IMAP. See what comes up.
2.) In Outlook, add a new email account that utilizes the IMAP
protocol, with the login information of the account you want to
recover. Tools > E-Mail Accounts > Add a new e-mail account
3.) Drag and drop all your downloaded email from Outlook's Inbox to
the Inbox of the IMAP account you just created.
Done.
My girlfriend works for a woman who uses AOL Mail (web-based) but
wanted to test Outlook 2003. Not fully understanding it, the woman
instructed my girlfriend to download all messages into Outlook.
*Poof*, all web messages were then deleted after Outlook downloaded
them. Horrified, the woman instructed my girlfriend to "put them back"
-- all 700+ of them. At first she tried forwarding one at a time, but
this was not acceptable since it all appeared to be coming From:
ThisWoman, To: ThisWoman. Of course, this makes things confusing.
Plus, the message date is the date it was forwarded. Not good.
So, after some thinking, I said "why not mount the web-based mail
account to Outlook, and drag and drop?" Guess what? It worked. We drag-
and-dropped all her messages back in (30 at a time to be safe) and
problem solved.
Granted, this is not a way for you to "forward" multiple messages to
someone, but it is a way to restore your web mail account in the event
you lose all your mail after downloading into Outlook.
Further note: if you want to download your web-based mail and leave a
copy on the server, you're able to do that by going to Tools > Options