"John Keith" wrote in message
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I'm trying to reconstruct my system after a crash and I'm having
trouble getting my mail downloading to operate as it previously did.
Using OL98/WinXP I used to click the Send/Receive button and I would
get any new messages from my provider (Juno FWIW) as well as sending
any messages that might be in my Out box. Now when I click on the
Send/Recieve nothing happens immediately (and I know the server has
messages in its Inbox) but I will come back at a later time and I will
have new mail in my Outlook Inbox and the server Inbox will be
emptied.

Not sure what the problem is, because I think you're describing normal
behaviour. Mail is downloaded to the local file and removed from the
server's Inbox.

I must not have something right yet and any advice on what I
need to look at would be greatly appreciated!

Were you wanting to have messages *stay* on the server? Go to tools,
email accounts, view or change, change, more settings, and on the last page,
Advanced, at the bottom is "Leave a copy on the server".

Be warned that it is not necessarily a good idea to set this to "forever".
Usually a few days is the limit of what's appropriate.

Or perhaps you could rephrase what the problem is?

HTH
-pk


Oh, and for what it's worth, I'm not using Juno for outgoing mail
since I've never been able to get that working, rather I use a
different smtp server and that seems to be working fine.

John Keith