I have Outlook Express 6 on my xp computer at work. I have always used that as my main computer. When I am away, I check my email through yahoo. Until 2 weeks ago, I could always delete the mail that downloaded through yahoo, but it would still download again the next day to my Outlook Express mail, so I would have everything. 2 weeks ago I bought an iphone, and during the 8 to 10 hours I spent with the "help-line" people, many settings were changed. I have now sent the iphone back because I never could make quit losing all my e-mails, but can't figure out how to restore my settings so that Outlook Express goes back to being the place where all my e-mails are saved and stored. Does this make sense to anyone?1 person needs an answerI do too

I think you want: Tools | Accounts | Mail | Properties | Advanced - Check: Leave a copy of messages on the server.Or are you not receiving any messages on OE at all? Nothing done with your phone should have changed this except to take the default away from OE possibly.Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Set Program Access and Defaults | Custom + Down Arrow | Select the radio button for Outlook Express.Make OE the default e-mail client: http://www.oehelp.com/oedef.aspxBruce Hagen ~ MS-MVP [Mail]

I don't know enough of the jargon to make myself clear, and I'm sorry. Outlook Express always USED to be the place that everything stored to. Like it WAS the server that messages were left on. And Yahoo USED to be the web-based place where I could delete things at will without worry because I knew they would be saved on my Outlook Express site anyway. Now it is working OPPOSITE that. If I am not at work and go to my email account through yahoo (I assume this is a web-based account) and delete anything BEFORE I go to work and directly download into my outlook express account, it never shows up in my Outlook Express account. It used to work the other way around. Is this clearer?

All your mail goes to your Web based yahoo account as you have stated. If you want to download it later into OE, youmust not delete it from the Yahoo Webmail. You can read it there, but leave it there.If you deleted messages from Yahoo, and they still arrived at OE later, that's a magic trick I have never seen before.Bruce Hagen ~ MS-MVP [Mail]

OE is not a server. A Server is where the messages are stored and downloaded from. You may in the past have downloaded the messages into OE (leaving the messages on the server) and then deleted them at will from the Yahoo server, but the opposite (as Bruce indicates) is unlikely. However, Yahoo has changed some things lately, as I understand it, so that may play a factor also. Bottom line is to download the messages to OE first and then delete them at will from Yahoo. steve "Daisyb" wrote in message news:2159deb8-0a11-4289-ba63-68083dd963aa...I don't know enough of the jargon to make myself clear, and I'm sorry. Outlook Express always USED to be the place that everything stored to. Like it WAS the server that messages were left on. And Yahoo USED to be the web-based place where I could delete things at will without worry because I knew they would be saved on my Outlook Express site anyway. Now it is working OPPOSITE that. If I am not at work and go to my email account through yahoo (I assume this is a web-based account) and delete anything BEFORE I go to work and directly download into my outlook express account, it never shows up in my Outlook Express account. It used to work the other way around. Is this clearer?