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Leaving Mail on Server



If you have two or more machines configured with the same e-mail address (i.e. Home and Work), you can configure your e-mail program to leave a copy of your messages on the server to be retrieved at a different location.  There are a few notes however:

 


One machine becomes the Master computer.

  • You want this to be the machine you use most of the time.
  • This is the machine that will receive all e-mail messages, including those that have been opened by the slave(s).
  • Once you open messages on this machine, you cannot retrieve them anywhere else.
  • You do not configure this machine with the instructions below.

The other machine(s) become the Slave(s).

  • Slave machine(s) will only receive messages that haven't been downloaded at the master location. 
  • When you retrieve messages on slave machine(s), a copy of those messages is left at the server to be retrieved later by the master.
  • Use the following instructions for slave machine(s):

 

Outlook Express

  • Click on Tools on your menu bar.
  • Click on Accounts...
  • Click the Mail tab.
  • Select your e-mail account, or if there's only one listed click on Properties.
  • Click the Advanced tab.
  • Click inside the box that says Leave a copy of message on server at the bottom of the window.
  • Click Apply.
  • Click OK.



Netscape Mail

  • Click on Edit on the menu bar.
  • Click on Preferences...
  • Click the plus (+) sign next to Mail & Groups.
  • Click on Mail Server.
  • Click the box next to Leave messages on server after retrieval to put a checkmark on it.
  • Click OK.

 

Eudora Light

  • Click on Tools on the menu bar.
  • Click on Options...
  • Click on the Checking Mail icon.
  • Click inside the box next to Leave mail on server.
  • Click OK.


 

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