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Leave a Copy of Email on Server

In the event that you want to check your email on your home PC, you may do so by setting up the same email account on your home PC as the one at work. However, in order to ensure that you continue to receive ALL of your email at work, you must LEAVE A COPY on the server. This will allow you to view your email on you home PC while continuing to receive the same emails on your work PC.

Be aware of the pitfalls of doing this little trick. To avoid confusion, be careful when replying to emails on your home PC. Keep track of those that you reply to. Once you get to work and check email, you will receive all of the same emails that were downloaded to your home PC.

Once an email is downloaded on your work PC, you will not receive it on your home PC. DO NOT leave a copy of your emails on both your home and work PC! Doing this will eventually cause your server to "fill up" and use all of your web server's disk space.

1. Open Outlook

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3. Select View or change existing e-mail accounts.
4. Click the Next button.
5.. Select the POP3 email account you want to edit.
6. Click the Change / Properties button.
12. In Outlook 2000/XP, click More Settings.
13. In previous Outlook versions, click the Advanced tab.

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14. In the Delivery section, check off the items as below.

Make sure that you enter a number in the Remove from server after # days.
When finished, click OK.

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