"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
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A Delete it from server rule will not download the message and it will also
delete it from the server, even if you have Leave a copy of messages on the
server checked. Unfortunately, you're trying to have your cake and eat it
too.

Thanks for the tip. I'm just a bit baffled as to why what I'm trying to do
can't be done! It sure seems like there's no "conflict" in what I want to
accomplish. As I already mentioned, I have chosen to leave E-mail on my
server; and all I want to do is to download EVERYTHING -- and then *AFTER*
that, I want to apply some message rules (such as moving certain messages to
other folders, automatically deleting "spam", etc.). And one of the things
I'd like to do is to "delete from server" anything that I consider worthless
to keep (even though I'd still like to download it and check it out first).

So that seems like two totally separate and independent steps: 1) retrieve
my E-mail and let me evaluate it based on messages rules; and 2) under
certain conditions, remove the original from the server -- but leave it on
my E-mail client. That sure seems like it should be do-able...

Some tips:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/rules.htm

This was the most helpful article -- although, once again, I'm baffled by
WHY it works the way it does. For now, I guess I have to just bite the
bullet, and remove the Message Rule, let the E-mail download into my Inbox
folder, and then go back and manually delete messages from my server that I
don't want to keep. Sure sounds like an unnecessary hassle.

But thanks for the help!
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Frank D. Nicodem., Jr.