On 20/05/2010 19:51, Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] wrote:

That's one way. You can use POP as well if you leave messages on the
server when you download them. The only loss is the Sent Items folder,
but you can do that with rules.


Yeah, they've "enhanced" the POP interface, too, which means you have to
put the word "recent:" in front of your username and then it'll download
the last thirty days worth (the first time you do it) onto each client.
The messages stay on the server regardless of whether or not you
configure your client to delete them. The upshot is that all manner of
weird things happen, depending on the client, from messages disappearing
without trace once they've been read to items refusing to be deleted no
matter what, or even more inconsistent weirdness. That's why I decided
to give IMAP a try (although for an IMAP first-timer this is proving to
be even weirder). Plus, as you said, you don't have access to your Sent
Items wherever you go, although in the past I've gotten around that by
BCCing myself and manually copying it to the Sent folder once it comes
in. I was just looking for a more elegant solution.