Mr Sharaf wrote:

Thanks, perhaps I should rephrase this. When I imapped to my email
server, it downloaded my Inbox history to outlook, so I could see
email that I had received before I actually started using Outlook.
Was wondering if the same could be done with Sent Items, ie download
all Sent Items from my mail server?

An IMAP account will allow you to see the contents of all the server-hosted
mail folders.
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Brian Tillman