For the record I've decided POP is the lesser of two weevils. I'm using the
"recent:" method I described in my last post; everything sent from my laptop
is BCC'd to me and on my desktop machine I've got a rule set up to move
anything from myself straight into the Sent Items folder, marking it as read
in the process. I was looking for a condition saying "where my name is in
the Bcc box" as a belt-n-braces check (in case I send myself an email for
some other reason) but it doesn't seem to appear in the lest, so I've
settled on "unless my name is in the To of Bcc box".

It's automatically ticked "on this machine only" but I'm not sure what that
does. Is it important?

The only thing I'm missing out on is I don't have access to all my Sent
Items on the laptop but if I use the rule in both directions some nasty
duplication loops might start occurring.


"Rojo Habe" wrote in message
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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.