How to disable mail storage on a POP3 server

The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows:

If Outlook is the only interface to an e-mail account, (a direct web interface is not used), then mails should not be left on the server. This article outlines how to set this in Outlook.

Open Microsoft Outlook
Go to the ‘Tools’ menu and from there you can select ‘E-mail Accounts…’

This will bring you to the following window (see below)

Select ‘View or change existing e-mail accounts’ and then click ‘Next’

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iPhone will not synchronise with Microsoft Outlook 2007 Calendar

The other day while browsing the Internet, I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

My iPhone was not syncing properly with my Microsoft Outlook 2007 calendar.  The solution and description to this error is set out below;

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Word couldn’t send mail because of MAPI failure: “Operation not Supported”

The other day while browsing the Internet, I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

I was unable to email documents, excel files, etc from within Microsoft Office using the File, Send to option that usually sends via Microsoft Outlook. I received the error “word couldn’t send mail because of MAPI failure: “Operation not Supported” “.

You may also receive “General mail failure. Quit Microsoft Office Excel, restart the mail sytem, and try again”.

The solution and description to this error is set out below;

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Disk Space Full – C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\

The other day while browsing the Internet, I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

I discovered that my Small Business Server (2003) was extremely very slow to respond to basic tasks.  Printers were not working,  browsing files and folders was slow and users were complaining of  overall speed issues. On further inspection, I learned that C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\ folder had over 6gb of logfiles. The question was, could I delete these files and more importantly, can I prevent this from reocurring?

The solution and description to this error is set out below;

 
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Microsoft Exchange POP3 Service Stuck on ‘Starting’ State

The other day while browsing the Internet, I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

The Microsoft Exchange POP3 service on Windows Server 2003 was stuck in an infinite state of  ”Starting” status after I had tried to manually restart it . After this, it would not respond to “net start” or “net stop” and I was also unable to control it from the services control panel.

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Microsoft Outlook is slow to open upon Startup

The other day while browsing the Internet, I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

When I try to open Microsoft Outlook, it takes 2-3 minutes to open. It will also take a few minutes to update the folders.

The solution and description to this error is set out below; 

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Out of Office Replies not working for External Mails

The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

The Out Of Office Reply in Microsoft Outlook was not working for external mails.

The solution and description to this error is set out below;

 
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0×80042108 – Pop mail not working correctly

The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

Pop mail would not work on 1 computer. I was receiving the error 0×80042108

The solution and description to this error is set out below;

 
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Copy the names in AutoComplete to another computer

The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

I was recreating a user profile on another computer and the user wished that his autocomplete email addresses would still be intact on the new computer

The solution and description to this error is set out below;

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Out of Office Assistant – The command is not available.

The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

The solution and description to this error is set out below;

When returning from holidays I  tried to turn off my out of office message in Microsoft Outlook. I received the message error message “The command is not available. See the program documentation about how to use this extension.”

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