Hi, David.
Your ISP's mail server computer stores all your incoming email messages
until your download them. Once you've received your email, the server
deletes them from its storage. Vista Mail receives your messages in your
Inbox on your own computer. Each message is one .eml file in your Inbox
subfolder in your WM Message Store. (To see exactly where this Message
Store is on your hard drive, click Tools | Options | Advanced | Maintenance
| Store Folder.) You should, of course, not leave messages in the Inbox
permanently, but move them into subfolders that you create, with names that
fit YOU (like Family, Friends, DavidPersonal, etc.), from where they won't
be deleted until you choose. WM also uses a few folders of its own
creation, such as the Outbox, Sent Items, etc. These are all on your
computer; the mail server does not know about these.
You can set WM to Leave a copy of your mail on the server after you've
downloaded it. To set this, on a per-account basis, go to Tools | Accounts
| <Time Warner> | Properties | Advanced, and look under Delivery. Just be
aware that lots of family photos - or spam! - can fill up your server's
mailbox very quickly, causing later incoming to be rejected because your
mailbox is full. Then you may need to use webmail to delete some or all of
the overflow.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)
"David Talada" <dtalada@stny.rr.com> wrote in message
news:ulY1oXs0HHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>I recently setup my Windows Vista Mail to send/receive Email from my Time
>Warner Email Account as I was running out of Quota. My question is related
>to Saving/Storing Email locally on my PC/Laptop. Does Windows Vista Mail
>actually save Email on my local PC/Laptop in a specific File Folder or
>remotely on a Windows Vista Server. How do I Save/Store Email locally for
>backup/restore purposes ? I may not understand the concepts of POP3 and
>IMAP Mail applications.
>
> Thanks,