"Mark Wilson" <dearolblig***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Since POP access has been made available to Hotmail users, I decided to
> ditch Outlook Connector for downloading emailing and connect direct to my
> inbox.
>
> Initially, I found that when Hotmail messages were downloaded into Outlook
> the original message was removed from the server and therefore could not
> be accessed by visiting hotmail.com. After adjusting the appropriate
> setting in Account Options I was able to leave a copy of an email on the
> server, but there is still one small gripe I'm hoping someone can help me
> with.
>
> I have Windows Live Messenger running and this informs me when a new email
> has been recieved. I switch to Outlook to read it and it is marked as read
> in the email client. However, Messenegr still reports that I have an
> unread message and continues to do so until I read the message online. Is
> there any way to stop this or will I have to revert back to using Outlook
> Connector?

> Since you are leaving mail on the server and pop3 does not sync back to
> the server, LM has no way to know that you read it in outlook.  You'll
> either need to use outlook's new mail reminders, stop leaving it on the
> server, to use the connector.
>

"Pioneer42" <pioneer42@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote in message
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> It is beyond me why they didn't add IMAP support instead of POP3.  With
> IMAP all your changes would be continually synced and accessible from
> anywhere, with any client.
>
> Diane Poremsky [MVP] wrote:
>> Since you are leaving mail on the server and pop3 does not sync back to
>> the server, LM has no way to know that you read it in outlook.  You'll
>> either need to use outlook's new mail reminders, stop leaving it on the
>> server, to use the connector.
>>
>