Receving list of messages from server - shows green bar now?

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Gene

Before I set my email server to keep up to 100 days of
old email (on my ISP's mail server), I would only get a green
bar when I actually had email that would be retrieved. That is,
when there was no email on my ISP's mail server, there
would NOT be a green download bar when I did a Send/Receive.
Now that I have set Vista Windows Mail to store up to 100 days,
I get a green bar EVERY time that I check my email - even when
there is no email to download.

What's going on?
Why the green bar now, and not before?
Is my ISP's mail server doing more work now?

I sent some test emails from another email account, and I seem to be
getting all emails OK - so nothing seems to be missing, just the
green bar that used to indicate that I was about to download emails.
Now I get the green bar, and may or may not get emails downloaded.

THANKS,
gene
 
Yes, the mail server has to do more work. It has to search
through all the messages in your mailbox to find the ones
that haven't been downloaded yet. As your online mailbox
gets fuller and fuller, the server response will get slower
and slower.
 
THANKS.
That's the best possible explanation I could ask for :-)

Gene




Gary VanderMolen said:
Yes, the mail server has to do more work. It has to search
through all the messages in your mailbox to find the ones
that haven't been downloaded yet. As your online mailbox
gets fuller and fuller, the server response will get slower
and slower.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS MVP-WLM]


Gene said:
Before I set my email server to keep up to 100 days of
old email (on my ISP's mail server), I would only get a green
bar when I actually had email that would be retrieved. That is,
when there was no email on my ISP's mail server, there
would NOT be a green download bar when I did a Send/Receive.
Now that I have set Vista Windows Mail to store up to 100 days,
I get a green bar EVERY time that I check my email - even when
there is no email to download.

What's going on? Why the green bar now, and not before?
Is my ISP's mail server doing more work now?

I sent some test emails from another email account, and I seem to be
getting all emails OK - so nothing seems to be missing, just the green
bar that used to indicate that I was about to download emails.
Now I get the green bar, and may or may not get emails downloaded.

THANKS,
gene
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You're welcome.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]


Gene said:
THANKS.
That's the best possible explanation I could ask for :-)

Gene




Gary VanderMolen said:
Yes, the mail server has to do more work. It has to search
through all the messages in your mailbox to find the ones
that haven't been downloaded yet. As your online mailbox
gets fuller and fuller, the server response will get slower
and slower.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS MVP-WLM]


Gene said:
Before I set my email server to keep up to 100 days of
old email (on my ISP's mail server), I would only get a green
bar when I actually had email that would be retrieved. That is,
when there was no email on my ISP's mail server, there
would NOT be a green download bar when I did a Send/Receive.
Now that I have set Vista Windows Mail to store up to 100 days,
I get a green bar EVERY time that I check my email - even when
there is no email to download.

What's going on? Why the green bar now, and not before?
Is my ISP's mail server doing more work now?

I sent some test emails from another email account, and I seem to be
getting all emails OK - so nothing seems to be missing, just the green
bar that used to indicate that I was about to download emails.
Now I get the green bar, and may or may not get emails downloaded.

THANKS,
gene
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