Trevor W wrote:
Quote:
> I am really getting frustrated. Live Mail reports: there are 9057
> messages not downloaded for a particular newgroup. I selected ALL
> MESSAGES for synchronization and it limits it to 300. So, I find the
> setup page and someone decided that nobody needs access to more than
> 1,000 - unless there is something I am misunderstanding because I
> change this:
>
> Tools>Options>Read>Get '1,000' headers at a time
>
> That seems to be a hard-coded limit for retreiving old messages. Why?
> Who decided that? Am I wrong? I NEED all 9057, not 1,000!!
>
> Why do I need them all?
>
> I am a support user of the newsgroup and support other users - they
> often refer to or need access to the "old" messages. A newsreader
> that is uncapable of retreiving all messages is simply worthless to
> me for obvious reasons, the messages not downloaded are completely
> inaccessible.
>
> I am hoping that my frustration is unwarranted and that there is some
> setup option - somewhere that will allow me to download - All - the
> actual messages and not have some arbitrary limit hard-coded into the
> product restrict me.
>
> Please... PLEASE... tell me there is away to get Live Mail to
> download all messages for a newsgroup????
>
> TIA
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Try the following...
Select a newsgroup and go to...
Tools / Synchronize newsgroup
You may have to select it more than
once to make the screen appear that
allows you to choose:
Get the following items / All messages / OK
--
John Inzer
MS Digital Media MVP
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