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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / Mail / May 2008Old mail
I've just purchased a new PC, built for me by a friend who's very good at that sort of thing! I've set up my internet and email accounts, and was wondering whether my ISP are likely to hold all my old email messages which I received whilst working with my old PC, or whether they are stored somewhere on the PC itself. Windows Mail is showing me new mail received today, but no old messages. I would have thought the ISP would have them. Is there any way to retrieve them through Windows Mail? My old PC is pretty much fried, physically, so can't go back to it! Thanks everyone Andy Are we talking about a POP account? If so, the default for POP accounts is that mail will be deleted from the server after it is downloaded. To see if the old messages are still there, you can look in the mailbox on the server via webmail. If not there, they will be on the old PC only. Since you have a savvy friend, he should be able to take the old hard drive out of the old PC and hook it up as a slave drive to a good PC long enough to retrieve the old emails.  SignatureGary VanderMolen, MS-MVP > I've just purchased a new PC, built for me by a friend who's very good at > that sort of thing! I've set up my internet and email accounts, and was [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Andy > I've just purchased a new PC, built for me by a friend who's very good at > that sort of thing! I've set up my internet and email accounts, and was [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Andy Depends on whether you were using the IMAP connection method or the POP method, and whether you used the setting to save copies of the messages on the server. The mail is probably removed from the server when you download it. You can set that under Tools | Accounts | Mail | Properties | Advanced. Your old mail is probably in OE dbx files on the old hard drive. See www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx steve > I've just purchased a new PC, built for me by a friend who's very good at > that sort of thing! I've set up my internet and email accounts, and was [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Andy |
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