I've set my home computer to leave messages on the server so I can read them
the next day at work. Once read at home, I want some to stay on the server
to have at work and some I want to delete from the server. The settings seem
to be global - either they all stay or they all go. An old Mac version of
Outlook Express allowed me to keep the messages on the server but delete
the ones I no longer wanted from within the individual message. In other
words, there was a button to click within the message to delete just that one
from the server. Can I do this in Outlook 2003 on Windows?

jaltsman wrote:

I've set my home computer to leave messages on the server so I can
read them the next day at work. Once read at home, I want some to
stay on the server to have at work and some I want to delete from the
server. The settings seem to be global - either they all stay or
they all go.

This is correct.

An old Mac version of Outlook Express allowed me to
keep the messages on the server but delete
the ones I no longer wanted from within the individual message. In
other words, there was a button to click within the message to delete
just that one from the server. Can I do this in Outlook 2003 on
Windows?

Outlook Express also leaves them all or not.

In Outlook, enable the option to remove them from the server when the
Deleted Items folder is emptied. Then when you delete an item and emptry
your Deleted Items folder, the item on the server will be removed.
--
Brian Tillman

The problem with setting them to delete from the server when deleted from the
computer is that I still want it on the server so I can retrieve it on the
work computer the next day.

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

jaltsman wrote:

I've set my home computer to leave messages on the server so I can
read them the next day at work. Once read at home, I want some to
stay on the server to have at work and some I want to delete from the
server. The settings seem to be global - either they all stay or
they all go.

This is correct.

An old Mac version of Outlook Express allowed me to
keep the messages on the server but delete
the ones I no longer wanted from within the individual message. In
other words, there was a button to click within the message to delete
just that one from the server. Can I do this in Outlook 2003 on
Windows?

Outlook Express also leaves them all or not.

In Outlook, enable the option to remove them from the server when the
Deleted Items folder is emptied. Then when you delete an item and emptry
your Deleted Items folder, the item on the server will be removed.
--
Brian Tillman