Access Exch. 5.5 w/ POP3, but only get Inbox...no subfolders

[BBeau]

Hello,

Looking to get a bit of help on an issue with Exch. 5.5 using Outlook Express 5.0 on Win98, and Outlook2000 on Win2000.

I have 1 Exch. 5.5 server on an NT4 Enterprise Edition box at the office. My workstation is Win2000, using Outlook2000. I use my Win98 laptop w/ OE 5.0 to connect to E-mail server via POP3 at home (use same for SMTP). "Leave a copy of messages on server" is checked on laptop, with no removal settings. "Show all messages" also checked on laptop.

All day I get emails at work and sort them into customized/added folders I have setup in my Outlook. They are not special folders, I just created new folders and move most messages manually, a few filters (organizing rules).

Problem: when I come home and use my laptop, OE only downloads messages that I have not moved to other folders (that will still show up in my Inbox at the office). This took me a little while to realize, for all I could see was that my laptop only got a few of the many messages that I received that day...

We don't have any other e-mail problems.

Feels like an Exch. issue, because I'm only beginner Exch. admin. It's actually acting like either the new folders are stored and pulled locally on my workstation (I don't have any "use Offline" settings set), or more likely, OE is looking at my inbox folder on the Exch. server, and when I move messages in Outlook they are put in their corresponding folders file on the server? (that's my best, best guess, but I thought there was just 1 mail file...).

Any help is much appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
-Brett

 

[joegz]

With what you described I would think you would be better off setting up IE to connect to the server using IMAP rather than POP.

Using POP OE is only going to look for the mail in the Inbox folder and is not going to care about any other folders on the server.

With IMAP you should be able to see the extra folders you setup on the server. joegz
"Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is."

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks much joegz. Never used or knew what IMAP connection was for.

Thanks again!
-Brett Turchin