Keeping a Copy of Your Mail on the Server
If you want to be able to retrieve your mail from different computers, you might want to keep a copy of your messages on the mail server. This makes all messages available no matter where you are or which computer you use to retrieve them. For example, if your computer at the office is configured to retrieve messages from your POP3 account every hour and you don’t leave a copy of the messages on the server, you’ll be able to see only the last hour’s worth of messages if you connect from a different computer.
IMAP stores messages on the server by default. POP3 accounts, however, work differently. By default, Outlook 2007 retrieves the messages from the POP3 server and deletes them from the server. If you ...
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