Getting rid of Windows Mail

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Bri

Whenever I enter into Windows Mail, it takes all of the e-mails from my
online account and I can no longer view those e-mails online. This is
beginning to be a problem when I'm not at home and need to access certain
e-mails that have been moved to my Windows Mail on my laptop. How do I move
all of my e-mails in Windows Mail, back to my comcast account and stop
Windows Mail from transferring all of my e-mails every time I open it? I will
also be travelling abroad soon without my laptop and need to access imporant
e-mails that have been moved to my laptop.
 
Bri said:
Whenever I enter into Windows Mail, it takes all of the e-mails from my
online account and I can no longer view those e-mails online. This is
beginning to be a problem when I'm not at home and need to access certain
e-mails that have been moved to my Windows Mail on my laptop. How do I
move
all of my e-mails in Windows Mail, back to my comcast account and stop
Windows Mail from transferring all of my e-mails every time I open it? I
will
also be travelling abroad soon without my laptop and need to access
imporant
e-mails that have been moved to my laptop.
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You should have set WM to leave a copy of each message on the server at
tools>accounts>your account>properties>advanced tab.
If you keep all messages on the server then your online mail box could fill
up and refuse incoming mail over time?
Set WM to delete messages from the server after a reasonable number of days,
on the same tab.
If Comcast allow it, create an online saved folder and move older messages
to that.

Regarding the messages you have downloaded, the only option is to forward
them back to yourself.
 
Do you want to access your messages from your Desktop, Laptop, and online?

If both computers are using the same e-mail address, on both machines:

Tools | Accounts | Mail | Properties | Advanced - Check: Leave a copy of
messages on the server.

On one machine only, check to Delete messages after X days to satisfy your
allotted space you get from your server while leaving enough time to
gather all your messages.

As far as getting messages back to the Comcast Webmail site, the only way
to do that is to forward them to yourself.
 
Bri said:
Whenever I enter into Windows Mail, it takes all of the e-mails from my
online account and I can no longer view those e-mails online.
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This is perfectly normal POP email client behaviour.

You can change this when you set up the client.
This is
beginning to be a problem when I'm not at home and need to access certain
e-mails that have been moved to my Windows Mail on my laptop. How do I
move
all of my e-mails in Windows Mail, back to my comcast account and stop
Windows Mail from transferring all of my e-mails every time I open it? I
will
also be travelling abroad soon without my laptop and need to access
imporant
e-mails that have been moved to my laptop.
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There's a checkbox in the Advanced settings, "Leave a copy of the message on
the server". There's another control "For x Days".

This will change the behaviour, but will not put the messages back. You
can forward them to yourself, but this is not very helpful. All of the
messages will appear as from you and to you, with more or less the same
timestamp. Sorting will not be easy.

There is a way that you could possibly move the messages back, but it
requires that your mail provider also allows IMAP access. If they do, you
use a client that supports extra offline mail folders, and move the current
mail there. You then set up the mail client to connect to your provider
via IMAP, attach the offline folders, and copy the messages back to the
Inbox or other newly-created folders. When done, if you don't want to use
IMAP (it can be slower), delete the client IMAP settings and re-create the
POP ones, including the "Leave messages on server" setting.

HTH
-pk
 
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