Does this accomplish what you're trying to do?
Most webmail servers these days let you set up "foreign" mail access which will pull mail from other mail servers and consolidate them in the local mail account. Usually you can either pull mail with POP mail or use IMAP to access the mail.
Not that I am pushing webmail over PC clients.I like IMAP clients better than webmail myself.
Thanks for the suggestions, Ray! I'll have my aunt try TB with this set-up and see if she likes it.The body of this message has not been downloaded from the server for reading offline. To read this message, you must reconnect to the network, choose Offline from the File menu and then uncheck Work Offline. In the future, you can select which messages or folders to read offline. To do this, choose Offline from the file menu and then select Synchronize. You can adjust the Disk Space preference to prevent the downloading of large messages.
I'll keep playing around with this (a little), even trying this in a few other clients (I know it won't easily work with Outlook 2007)....
What about writing a batch script that runs on startup to delete the contents of TB's mailbox folders?
Okay! I think I've gotten things to work. I downloaded TB and set up my own FM account using the preferences Ray listed above, esp. Syncronization and Storage. Also: Options > Advanced > Network and Disc Space > Offline and answering 'no' to the question of downloading messages for offline reading.
I've tested it and so far, so good. Messages can be viewed in the preview pane, moved, deleted, and drafts can be composed and saved to the online draft folder, all without having any of the content available when TB is closed and restarted! Each re-start will display the following when selecting a message previously viewed: Thanks for the suggestions, Ray! I'll have my aunt try TB with this set-up and see if she likes it.
I never actually tried this. (Don't know much about batch files.) I found it worked for me with TB and WLM, so I suggested my aunt try WLM first.It's possible but defaults the purpose of using Outlook. She'd need to use a batch file to delete the imap data files when she closed outlook. If her imap account contains much mail, it would be slow as it needs to sync everything every time - it wouldn't be noticeable if she just has a few hundred.
In any case, every time I opened TB, while the headers were still there, the message (in the preview pane) was not. So, I assume it was working as intended.
Every time I restart WLM it needs to re-access a message for viewing, so I'm assuming that's working as intended as well (not downloading).
I never tested whether the message downloads when actually opening the message in full view (by double-clicking). I'll have to experiment with that a bit later when I have time.)
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