Steve,
I never had much luck "merging" emails in Outlook Express, but one
way would be to forward all the emails on your laptop to a web mail
account such as yahoo.com then forward them from the yahoo account
back to your POP3 email account. Then on your desktop computer simply
collect them as you always do.
When on Vacation or away from the office or home and you want to
read your email that is on a POP3 server, there are two things you
can do that won't erase them from the server, assuming there is a high
enough limit on storage space for the emails you want to save. When
you get back you can just download them to your desktop computer:
1. Use Web Mail. Most ISPs have a way you can login to your account by
accessing a WWW URL. Reading, editing, replying, writing new email,
etc. can all be accomplished while logged in. If you don't delete the
emails, they will still be there when you get back.
2. In Outlook Express and almost any email client I've seen, there is
a setting that will leave a copy of the email on the server. In OE go
to "Tools", "Accounts", highlight the account and select "Properties".
Under the "Advanced" tab put a check mark in the box for "Leave a copy
of messages on server" and click "OK" and "Close".
Good Luck,
Craig
On 9/9/05, Amy Ledford <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hey Steve,
>
> 2 ideas come to mind--The first I am not completely
> sure about...and I will ask list members to correct me
> if I am wrong... The 2nd option I think is far better.
>
> 1. Use the File and Settings Transfer Wizard, treating
> the laptop as the "old" computer. The Wizard can be
> found by going to Start, All Programs, Accessories,
> System Tools, then Files and Settings Transfer Wizard.
>
> 2. Save the messages to a CD, then transfer the
> messages directly from the CD. You will have a backup
> if your system crashes, plus, (my personal opinion
> here) this is sooooo much simpler.
>
> I will always recommend having a "hard copy" of
> anything vitally important to you. In the event of a
> system crash, you may not be able to salvage the data.
>
> HTH--Amy Ledford
>
> --- Steve Brumbaugh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > For about a month, I've been using Outlook Express
> > on a laptop while I've
> > been away from home. Now that I'm back, I'd like to
> > "merge" my email
> > messages from the laptop into the database of email
> > messages on my home
> > computer without replacing the old one (not losing
> > any messages already
> > there). Is this possible and, if so, how would I go
> > about it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steve
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