Re: Hotmail POP access in Outlook 2007

[Crosspost to Windows Live Messenger newsgroup]

If you have your Mail Client synchronize with the account again (i.e., do
another Send/Receive), does the Messenger behavior persist?
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Mark Wilson wrote:
> Since POP access has been made available to Hotmail users, I decided to
> ditch Outlook Connector for downloading emailing and connect direct to my
> inbox.
>
> Initially, I found that when Hotmail messages were downloaded into Outlook
> the original message was removed from the server and therefore could not
> be
> accessed by visiting hotmail.com. After adjusting the appropriate setting
> in
> Account Options I was able to leave a copy of an email on the server, but
> there is still one small gripe I'm hoping someone can help me with.
>
> I have Windows Live Messenger running and this informs me when a new email
> has been recieved. I switch to Outlook to read it and it is marked as read
> in the email client. However, Messenegr still reports that I have an
> unread
> message and continues to do so until I read the message online. Is there
> any
> way to stop this or will I have to revert back to using Outlook Connector?

Greetings,

Unless it's been added non-standardized, POP (the protocol) had no ability to "set" messages
as read or not, so there shouldn't be any expectation that the messages should get set to
read when they're left on the server.

Only other protocols like IMAP and HTTPMail/Deltasync (Outlook Connector) have this
capability.

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"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <> wrote in message
news:...
> [Crosspost to Windows Live Messenger newsgroup]
>
> If you have your Mail Client synchronize with the account again (i.e., do another
> Send/Receive), does the Messenger behavior persist?
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
> AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
> DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
>
> Mark Wilson wrote:
>> Since POP access has been made available to Hotmail users, I decided to
>> ditch Outlook Connector for downloading emailing and connect direct to my
>> inbox.
>>
>> Initially, I found that when Hotmail messages were downloaded into Outlook
>> the original message was removed from the server and therefore could not be
>> accessed by visiting hotmail.com. After adjusting the appropriate setting in
>> Account Options I was able to leave a copy of an email on the server, but
>> there is still one small gripe I'm hoping someone can help me with.
>>
>> I have Windows Live Messenger running and this informs me when a new email
>> has been recieved. I switch to Outlook to read it and it is marked as read
>> in the email client. However, Messenegr still reports that I have an unread
>> message and continues to do so until I read the message online. Is there any
>> way to stop this or will I have to revert back to using Outlook Connector?
>