Can a USB thumbdrive “wear out”?

USB Memory Stick
The use of USB drives and the best of devices based on other flash memory is simply copy-to and copied from. By that I mean to copy the information to the offers to host it, copy it from the portable hard drive into a local hard disk to use it, and then copy it back to USB drives to store store it.
Never run disk-intensive applications directly against files stored on a USB drive.
If you copy to and from even ten times a day, you’re looking at three years using the low end of the lifespan of flash memory. (Yes, I know that is not exactly In fact, it’s way more complicated than it ;. factoring in such things as the type of file system FAT or NTFS, the effectiveness of the device drivers , and even the circuits on the device-specific flash memory – but that is an order of magnitude).
You can also note that your application speed when you copy your database to your hard drive to use. While reading the flash memory is usually quite fast, not text.
And finally, if you really need external storage, a possible advantage is simply wrong solution for your problem. There are many external hard drives that can do the same job without the restrictions stated. Or perhaps a networked solution is the way to go.

Backup

Knowing that the device based on flash memory will wear out cheaper in the end, there is one other thing that you need to be sure to do, and that is for backup.
If only you keep copies of important data on the flash drive you’re asking for trouble. It will wear out eventually, and your data will be completely unrecoverable.
Remember the “golden rule” of the backup:
If only one copy, it is not backed up.
If only one copy on a flash drive, its days are numbered.

Insert the flash in flash memory

Flash memory chip known as “flash” because to write to it, the memory is loaded, and then a signal is sent to the memory circuits that says “remember this” – like the flash on camera. (In all honesty, I do not know if modern flash memory using exactly this technique, but it remains a fairly accurate metaphor for this process.)
Once the memory is “projection”, energy can be eliminated completely, and the memory will retain whatever has been written for it.
The problem is that the memory can be shown only in this way many times. I’m looking for the numbers from 10,000 to 100,000 times – whether it’s with anything, I’m sure growing over time as well. Regardless, there is a limit. When that limit is approaching, a number of memory components can not properly remember what has been written for it, leading to corruption. It can only get a single bit of information is wrong, or to “wear out”, the entire contents of a flash memory chip to be lost.
A number of flash memory chips, perhaps even most, now also includes circuitry to avoid “bad bits”. That means that if a portion of the flash memory eventually wear out and deteriorate, the chip itself can be offset, and it will look to the user like everything is fine. Another method is called “wear leveling.” This spread usage across the entire flash memory device, even if you only have text for the same seat in the same file every single time.
But these techniques only lasted so long and only delay the inevitable.
Now, in your case, you’re using a USB thumbdrive in perhaps the worst possible way for life. the database application in particular are notorious for writing to disk – a lot – such as tables, fields, indexes and the like are being updated. Even if you do not write to your database, the file can be updated with things like “last access” information and other administrative fine. As a result, the USB drive has been written to. Great number of.
With all that is written, scores failure of some random bits or bits of flash memory seems not far-fetched. Remember that, in case of bad luck, it just may take a little trail of information to make the entire contents unreadable.

What about SSDs?

SSD or Solid State drives are actually based on flash memory. And yes, they will wear out too.
Just not as quickly.
There is a difference between memory “cheap” flash I’ve discussed so far, and flash memory on the SSD. USB connectivity; CF, SD and microSD memory cards are all relatively cheap. The types of flash technology they use is, as I have described, prone to wear out if recorded in the “too much”. inexpensive drives can wear out from use frequently in a relatively short time period.
Not entirely so for SSDs.
SSD flash technology to use a more expensive, and are designed differently than their brothers their inexpensive. Even when the price goes down to reach the cost per gigabyte of mobile hard drives, this technology is still fundamentally different and often significantly larger physically.
The same problem applies: an SSD will wear out – it just takes a lot of time to do so. In fact, it is not unreasonable to assume that an SSD used as the main drive of a computer that can outlast the useful life of the machine itself; again, depending on how it is used. It will wear out eventually, but you will likely have moved to another before that time.
Regardless, it is important to remember that the media can and will fail. The difference we’re talking about what to do with how fast, on average, the failure will occur. Again, based on the use of traditional spinning hard drives and SSDs will significantly outlast the cheaper flash drives.
And you need to back them up.
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Back Up Your Email Using Thunderbird

Our example: Outlook.com and Hotmail
In this example, I will use Thunderbird email program my desktop, but any desktop program that supports IMAP can backup your email, including Windows Live Mail, Outlook Microsoft Office, and more nual.

The following article, I will use a Hotmail account – ….@hotmail.com. I will continue to access that account as I often do, use Outlook.com website, but we will back it up to my computer using Thunderbird.

The technique I will use applicable to virtually all online accounts, including Gmail, Yahoo! and others. For this technique to work, the account must support a protocol called “IMAP”. The good news is that IMAP is a method commonly used to access e-mail, and almost all email services support it.
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Install Thunderbird

The first step is to download and install Thunderbird. Download here download Thunderbird from the official website.

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Download and run the Setup Wizard.

The first option is to accept the default settings or customize:

Always choose Custom. Although we will accept all the suggestions made by the installer, select Custom is an important habit to get into to avoid malware and PUPs. Click Next for the next set, and accept:
Create icons on the Desktop, Start Menu and Quick Launch bar.
The location settings for Thunderbird.
If there are additional options, read them carefully to ensure that you understand what it is that you agree with.
Click Install on the last page of the Wizard to actually install Thunderbird.

When installation is complete, leave the “Launch Mozilla Thunderbird now” checked, and click Finish.
When run, Thunderbird can provide the settings from a mail program if installed:

Because our goal here is simply to use Thunderbird to back up and we will be configured to your account, there is no need to import anything.
Thunderbird will ask if you want it to be the default program for mail and feeds.

It’s up to you. If you are using a regular email program on your computer, you may want that program to be your default client.

Configure Thunderbird for a Hotmail account

When you first install Thunderbird, no email accounts are configured. Thunderbird will ask if you want to create a new email address to one or more suppliers chosen in advance. Since we already have an account – our Hotmail accounts are backed up – we do not need this. Click Skip this and use my current email.
Then, Thunderbird Mail Setup dialog box account:

Enter your name, email address and password. In my case, I’ve entered the “Ask Leo!” Is my name, “….@hotmail.com” as your email address, and password for that account.
Select Remember password if your computer is safe and you do not want to have to enter your password every time you open Thunderbird.
Click Continue, and Thunderbird will consult a database of its own email provider for the correct settings. Hotmail is the basis of that data.

Make sure IMAP is selected, and click Done.
Thunderbird is now configured to access your Hotmail account and begin downloading your mail.

Using Thunderbird

Benefits of using the IMAP email program will download a copy to your computer, create a backup copy of your email. You can continue to use your email as usual – usually via the web Outlook.com interface, your mobile device, or anywhere else you’ve acessing it.
You can, if you prefer, use Thunderbird to actually read, compose, and reply to messages. Send you read here will be marked as read somewhere. In fact, any changes you make, such as moving mail to folders, delete mail, or otherwise manage your e-mail will be visible in all the places you visit your email .
Since IMAP reflect activity on your online account to your computer, be aware that it will reflect any deleted as well. Delete a message online, and the next time you connect to the Thunderbird, the message will be deleted locally as well. Back up your PC regularly2 can provide you with an additional safety net from the warehouse Thunderbird will be included in the backup as well.

Backup contacts

To back up your contacts, you need to export from your email provider. Contacts are not included in email protocols, and therefore is not in anything we have done so far.
In Outlook.com, contacts are “the people”:

Click on the icon to the left of Outlook.com menu in its title, and then click on the icon people results.

On the People page, click the Manage menu item, and then click on Export to Outlook.com and other services. Since this is a backup, we chose this format in case we need to import back into Outlook.com.
Save the downloaded file somewhere on your computer – ideally in a place that will also be supported by the backup of your regular computer.
You can, if you prefer, import the contacts into Thunderbird, but because our goal here is to bring them back, we did achieve that, simply by downloading the files for our computer.3
Backup your email

If you do not use Thunderbird regularly, it is important to run Thunderbird to perform periodic backups of it. Once a day, once a week, or several times a month, depending on how current you want your backup, run Thunderbird, and keep it running until it is loaded on a stars of the latest updates for your mail.
Similarly, when there is no load automatically to your contacts, you will need to do it regularly as well.
The good news here is that your email is backed up! Especially when used in combination with the backup computer is happening, you are also protected against data loss due to theft accounts or other problems.
However, in all honesty, I still will not keep the only copy of my master thesis here. It’s worth a couple of copies in more places for safety.

Many years ago, soon after Ask Leo! started, I received an email from a personal panic whose accounts have been hacked. He has lost all access to your account and everything in it. His panic stems from the fact that, for whatever reason, the only copy of his Master’s thesis had been in that account.
It is gone, and no hope of recovery.
Hopefully, you will not keep something as important as the Master’s thesis accounts only in your webmail. That is wrong on many levels. But I guess there are things in your account that you never want to lose, such as photographs, letters, or other things that you have in an email exchange.
The problem is, of course, if it’s just in your email account, it is not backed up.
Let’s fix that. Please backup your email.

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What are Outlook.com’s IMAP, POP3, and SMTP settings?

SMTP

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SMTP is used to send messages.
SMTP configuration parameters for Outlook.com is:
Server: smtp-mail.outlook.com
Port: 25 (or 587 if 25 is blocked)
Authentication: Yes
Encrypted connection: TLS
User name: Your email address
Password: Your Password
Configured as described above, you will be able to send email from your email program to your desktop computer through Outlook.com.

Email programs

email programs desktops and various mobile phone will ask for this information in different ways and in different places.
Usually, when you set up an e-mail program, you will configure one or multiple email accounts. One account includes:
Your email address
The user name of your account (sometimes, it is the same as or derived from your email address)
Your account password
Outlook.com LogoAs you enter this information, your email program can also inquire about the protocol that it uses to communicate with the server of the service provider of your email.
That’s what we’re going to go through in the Hotmail / Outlook.com with Article 1 of this.

POP3

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Your email program using POP3 protocol for downloading email from the server to provide services to your email.
POP3 configuration parameters for Outlook.com is:
Server: pop-mail.outlook.com
Port: 995
SSL encrypted connections
User name: Your email address
Password: Your Password
Note that you need to enable POP3 access in Outlook.com.
Click the gear icon in the upper right corner and then click More mail settings. Under Manage your account, click on the connected devices and applications with POP:

Under POP, select Enable, and then click Save.
You will note that you also have the option to force the removal requests to be ignored. This is more or less equivalent to the “Leave messages on server” option that many programs have desktop email. If you select “Do not leave the device or application to remove the message …” option, then they will still be accessible through the web interface Outlook.com until you delete them there.
IMAP

IMAP
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Your e-mail program to use the IMAP protocol to copy or email stored on a mirror server to desktop email or your device.
IMAP configuration parameters for Outlook.com is:
Server: imap-mail.outlook.com
Port: 993
SSL encrypted connections
User name: Your email address
Password: Your Password
IMAP is probably the most convenient way to access email on multiple computers and devices as it keeps them in sync. The downside is that an internet connection more or less continually often required for the best experience.
other

Microsoft also includes additional access mechanism with Outlook.com, including Exchange Active Sync (which is obviously similar in function to IMAP). You can view the full list here on the Microsoft website: Set up an email app with Outlook.com
With the development of devices running its email program, install POP3, SMTP, and IMAP now more often is a common requirement for various email services.
For a long time, Microsoft did not provide the ability to connect with an email program desktop, but they added it to Hotmail a few years ago. With the switch to Outlook.com replaces Hotmail, the remaining functions.

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How do I backup email to an external hard disk using Outlook?

The first backup

This article using Outlook 2010 for example. While Outlook 2007 is similar, intuitive Outlook 2003 and before quite different.
Conceptually, everything is applicable to all versions.
The biggest difference is that you will use the File menu, select the Data File menu in previous versions of Outlook to
PST files created or opened.
Until you are familiar with the techniques that I am about to prove, I would suggest that you back up your files to your current PST. Just close Outlook and copy them somewhere.
Given the importance of the email is to many people and that we were going to be doing things that can be moved from one PST emails, it only makes sense to save a copy of what we have before us we started.
The version of Outlook
Create a PST

A PST, or store personal data (or stored), the file formats that Outlook uses to store all emails, contacts, calendars, and more.
But really, it’s just a file.
And while Outlook will create one or more for you automatically, depending on the type of email account you have, you can most certainly create your own.
Click the File menu and Account Settings button.

In the resulting dialog box, click the Data Files tab, and then click the Add … button:

In the resulting “Create or open” dialog box, navigate to where you want the data files are located and enter the new name for the PST file is created:

In the above example, I am about to create “MyEmailArchive.pst” put in my D: backup folder. The name and location can be anything you like, including your external drive.
Click OK.
Outlook PST is now displayed in the list of PST:

Click Close.
Now you’ll notice a new entry in the left pane and open the newly created PST:

Create a folder in a new PST

PST has no directory, so we will create one. Right-click the new PST (MyEmailArchive, in this example) and select New Folder …

Enter a name for your new folder:

In this example, I chose to call my folder months storage, but you can use any name or organizational strategy makes sense for you.
Click OK.
You may find that Outlook does not only create new folders, but a PST Deleted Items folder to the folder as well as its search.

You can create folders and subfolders as you want, just like the current file your PST.

New to PST email migration.

In fact, hosting your email is as simple as drag and drop.
Select the message you want to put in a new PST, press and hold, and drag the new folder:

Important: Look closely at the following example than the one above:

The default action is to move emails from one folder to another – that is, after the email is placed in the newly created PST of us, it will be removed from its original location.
Hold down the CTRL key causes a small plus sign to be added to the cursor icon above. This indicates that the message will be copied to the new folder and the original is to be alone.
Once you’ve determined whether you want to move or copy, and so press Ctrl or not, move the mouse over the destination folder and release.
The message will be placed into a folder in your archive PST.
When you’re done moving or copying an email in your archive PST, you can right-click the PST and click Close:

The PST is closed. Now you can copy it, back it up somewhere, or in the case of an external drive, click the Safely Remove and disconnect the drive if you’re so inclined.

Access to your archive PST

Time passed, and finally you decide that you want access to something that you’ve put into the archive PST.
Make sure the file is accessible on your hard drive or network or external drive, you have it on is connected.
Return to the File menu, account settings and the Data Files tab and click Add … again like you did when you created the data file.
This time, in the Create or Open dialog box, locate the archive PST:

Above, I’ve located PST that I created earlier: D: backupMyEmailArchive.pst.
Click the name of the PST file selection window and click OK to open it.
Thats all there is to it. The PST is again open and can be seen in the windows folder in Outlook. You can view its contents, and copy things in and out of your heart’s content.
PST Location

I did not make a big deal out of where you create your archive PST.
I suggest that you create it on the hard disk of your computer; Then when you are done accessing it, copy the files to where you plan to keep it – can be a network location, an external hard drive, or something else .
Technically, you can create and access PST directly to one of those. The problem is that if there is a glitch in the network connection or external drive is accidentally disconnected while opening PST, PST files themselves can be left in a state of corruption. Often PST can be repaired with the utility ScanPST, but sometimes it can not. Of course, the risk that you may lose the contents of PST completely.
Unfortunately, when last I checked, PST files do not behave well when placed on a read-only or write-protected media like CD-R, DVD-R, or flash drive or other with a write-protect options, or even if the file is marked with read-only attribute.
Outlook seems to insist on the read / write access to the PST does not really matter what you intend.
The good news here is that it’s quite simple to solve. Because PST only a single file, copy it to your hard drive before you open it in Outlook, and then copy it back or record a new CD / DVD when you’re done.
In Outlook 2010, I received a as.msg file (which is not a text file) for each.
It is a way to do it, but it is not particularly easy to manage.
I want a different approach that is really special flexibility both now while stored, and then, when you need access to your repository.

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What is IMAP? And how can it help me manage my email?

IMAP: a window into your mail

IMAP create a master copy of your email is stored on the email server. The software you use is just one window: a view that the warehouse owner.
So when you set up an e-mail program such as Thunderbird (or Outlook, or you love-email-program) to access email via IMAP, or connect your phone or mobile device in your email you (which typically also use IMAP) is the best way to think about what’s really happening is that the program simply shows you what is on the server.

IMAP: Your message stayed on the server

The biggest difference between IMAP menu was with IMAP and POP3, your email is always left on the server to provide services to your email.
If your email provider has a limit how many emails can be retained, and you get a lot of emails, then IMAP may not be for you.
To put it into perspective: as you can imagine, I get a fair amount of email. nearest four years worth of emails in my personal account using a little over 40% in 25 GB storage is provided by Gmail.
Other vendors – notably most ISPs – can not be so generous; but then, you can not get many gigabytes of mail a year as I do. It’s just something to check.

If it is just a glimpse of your email that is stored on the server, why use an email program desktop at all? You can get a look at how to use a web-based interface is easy.
I said the same window concept is the best way to think about it. As with many things on your computer, the reality is considerably more complex.
For example, your email program may very well actually download a copy of all the new email to your computer. I think that is an optimization. Are you still looking for your email because it lives in the archives of the mail server, but your e-mail program has been optimizing the experience by downloading the email so that it can be accessed and displayed quickly than.
In fact, e-mail using IMAP download can be tested off-line, if your email program is configured appropriately. And that’s more or less just like POP3.
But there is an important difference.
the IMAP; move POP3

When your IMAP e-mail load, it is to copy the email on your computer. The original email is still in store owner’s email server to your email; there is simply a copy of it on your computer for quick access and easy. (Or backup, as we shall see in a moment.)
When POP3 downloading your email, on the other hand, it moves the email from the email server to your computer. By default, when the download is complete, the only email residing on the computer where it was downloaded.
This “copy, not move,” the difference between IMAP and POP3 allows something very interesting.
IMAP: Use it on as many devices as you like

Since using IMAP really just a “point” of the original copy of your email is stored on a server … you certainly can have more than one computer opens a look.
In fact, if you have a mobile device to access your email, you can use IMAP already, because it is a default configuration for popular mobile e-mail programs.
IMAP

Each program uses IMAP to access your email simply keep themselves in sync with the original copy. So if something happens to the master copy – say an email is deleted, or marked as “read” – then the changes will be reflected in all email programs.
Delete a message here, it was removed there. Mark it read there, it will show up as read here: sync across multiple devices.
IMAP: I was referring to the directory?

Unlike POP3, IMAP support folders.
That means that if you create a folder on a computer connected to your email account uses IMAP, then that directory will be visible in all email programs are connected to the e-mail account IMAP.
And, of course, if you move a message into a folder, the message is converted into a folder in all email programs are connected to that account.
The only common point of confusion is Gmail. Gmail really does not support the directory at all, but instead provides equivalent functionality through the use of labels. Check my article how concerning Gmail labels directory? for more info.
IMAP: you can upload

In my opinion, this is an under-appreciated feature of IMAP.
If you put a message in your inbox on a computer that is connected to your email account via IMAP, the message is uploaded and placed in the original copy on the server.
In fact, that is true for any folder, but the mailbox has a special meaning, I think.
Why?
That’s what most people want to move when they are changed email providers.
Moving from Yahoo to Gmail? Set up an e-mail program on the computer for each IMAP connection, and simply drag and drop the contents of the old to the new mailbox.
Conceptually, it really is almost as simple.

Use IMAP to backup

Let’s say you access Gmail via the web and through the web. You have everything you need on any computer you happen to use, simply by logging into your Gmail account.
What about backups?
A machine running an email program desktops connected to your email account via IMAP makes a great solution.
In fact, that is exactly what I recommended these days. Most of your email access may be through the web interface of your email provider, but a machine running an email client such as Thunderbird, connect to your account via IMAP, will download email as it appear.
As a backup.
IMAP: best when quickly and connectivity; POP3: Best for slow or intermittent

POP3 email protocols have been developed in the days of dial-up modem and connect periodically.
Connect to the internet, download all your email, and disconnection is a common way of life, especially when no one else can use your phone while you are connected.
IMAP promote faster connection to the internet and more persistent. That is more or less constantly check for updates and the need to synchronize between your computer and the email server repository.
Both will work in both scenarios. POP3 works just fine if you stay connected on a fast connection, and IMAP works if the connection is not always available and synchronized action should be postponed until it is.
But if you are always connected and you’re on something faster than a dial-up modem, IMAP can also make a convenient approach to managing your email on your computer.
Assuming that your email provider supports it, of course, and give you enough space.

IMAP stands for “Internet Message Access Protocol”. That’s a fancy name for a protocol used by email programs such as Outlook, Thunderbird, and others to access your email.
IMAP is an alternative to the POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3), working in a number of fundamentally different way, and make a few different basic assumptions.
I’ll check IMAP, how it compared with POP3, and when you might want to consider using it.

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Why does email disappear from my phone?

Access Downloading Mobile

When a mobile phone to access e-mail, it does so from the provider of your email service, of course, but it does so in a different way.
Most email programs that run on mobile devices using a different protocol called IMAP to access email.
IMAP differs in that instead of moving a message to the device you are using, it simply makes a copy without removing anything from the server unless you ask. It synchronize such a way that when you delete on your device, it is deleted on the server; when you read on your device, it is marked as read on the server; when you move things around in folders on your device, everything is moving around in the directory on the server.
IMAP makes two important assumptions:
The mail server is where official that email is stored, not your phone. Your phone is simply a “window” in which the original stars.
Multiple devices can be accessed which mail servers simultaneously. IMAP keeps them in sync.
IMAP is perfect for today’s world where we can assume that connects most of the time, and it’s not uncommon want to access email from different devices and in different ways at the moment different.
POP3 and IMAP in conflic

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Here is what I think is happening to you.
You can e-mail program to your desktop configuration to download your email to your computer using POP3. So when it checks email it to move that email to your computer, remove it from the mail server.
You may also e-mail program that desktop configured to automatically check for email every so often – perhaps five minutes, maybe 30 or more, but it’s important that you are not around. As long as the mail program is running, it is happy to download your email on a regular schedule.
Your mobile device is accessing your email using IMAP, which means it simply gives you a picture of what’s on the mail server.
The net result? It is “the image of the mail server” changes every time you load emails in computer email program. Mail that comes on the server since the last time it was checked will be downloaded to your PC and deleted from the server.
From your phone, email looks like it has disappeared.
For years, most email programs desktops are configured to download emails from the email service on the computer on which they run.
What that really means is that the program is configured to use POP3 email charm. POP3, by default, moving email from the email server to your computer. The result is that after email is copied to your computer, it is removed from the mail server service.
This actually makes a lot of sense for many reasons, the most popular two-man:
Your PC is where you handle your mail, so there is no point in having anything on this server have been downloaded.
the e-mail service providers usually limit the amount of space that you can use anyway, often to a small enough amount that even the mail that accumulated over a weeks vacation may exceed what is called “quotas”, or the amount of space you want to be allocated.
In recent years, however, both had plenty of reasons to be dispensed.

Conflict resolution

There are two basic methods for solving the conflict: the right one, in which there is more work, and one of fact, the amount of an established offline.
The correct solution is to configure your email program to your desktop – you mentioned it is Outlook – to use IMAP. That way it becomes “just a device” with a window into the gallery all email is stored on your email servers.
The problem here is that you can not convert an account in most POP3 email from IMAP program. Instead you have to set up a new account in the mail program, using the same information, but this time specifying that the IMAP protocol will be POP3. In Outlook, but will create a separate set of folders and new versions of the IMAP account. Then you can delete the POP3 configuration.
I call this the right approach because then everyone is in agreement: the mail server containing the original copy of your email, and everyone else – your phone, your desktop , your webmail, and any other devices that you add in the future – all simply provide a local copy or view the master copy.
There are two reasons why you do not want to go that route:
Your email provider still have harsh restrictions on how much email they will store for you.
Transition from POP3 IMAP that I just outlined is too difficult for you.
In this case, we will leave the desktops configured to use POP3, but made a change a setting obscure.
In Outlook, for example, in the advanced configuration of the account, there is an option to “Leave a copy of messages on server”
Outlook Leave a copy of messages on server

By selecting this option, Outlook will simply ignore the steps that it delete the message and then upload them. You can also have it automatically delete messages on the server after a certain number of days, or when you actually delete them in your mail program.
This will not do is synchronize anything else. If you read an email on your computer, for example, it will still show up as unread on your phone, and folders are not supported – POP3 is only for downloading into your inbox.
But it can be a reasonable solution for your current problem.
And of course the next time, with a new account, you will probably be able to set up IMAP from scratch.
With more and more people read email on their smartphone, this is actually a fairly common situation, because it is easy to misconfigure thing when adding a phone to set up your email and there seems disappear.
I will review what I think is happening, and then explore the alternatives to fix it.

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Why doesn’t my machine’s IP address match what I’m told on the internet?

The article on our website is aimed at guiding answer all the difficulties that you encountered when using Hotmail. If you are interested in and use it regularly. Please take a moment to refer to the last day of our articles.

I have highlighted the IP address assigned to the computer’s network adapter. This is the IP address of the computer.

Internet IP address of your computer

Call something a “network” and the IP address to feel redundant. IP actually stands for Internet Protocol. When Internet Protocol is often used even when not connected directly to the internet, it is not really silly to talk about an IP address that’s on the Internet or Internet protocol address internet.
There are several web sites that you can visit that will tell you your Internet IP address. Instead of sending you somewhere else, I’ll just tell you: your IP address is 66.102.6.108.
So why is it different from the IP address of your computer?
It is very likely that all the computers in your house will show the same internet IP address.
IP address of your computer

Windows does not come with any great utility to make finding the IP address of your computer easily. (Before you protest, I am talking about the IP address of your computer. As we shall see in a moment, that is not something that you would get from a website.)
Simple explanation is running Windows Command Prompt (Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt, or typing Windows Key + R, type cmd and click OK), and in the Command Prompt window, type ipconfig next On .Let’s back up and look at how the IP address was assigned.

In most cases, the Internet address is assigned automatically:

In this example, your computer uses a protocol called DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) to connect to your ISP or network provider. It requires an IP address and the ISP assigns a. From here, determine the IP address that computers on the internet. Now, the IP address can change. When the computer connects again, it might be for a different address. That is why it is called an IP address “dynamic”.
A static IP address is … well, static. Your computer does not require ISPs to an IP address. Both the computer and the ISP is configured manually to “know” the first IP address and the computer from which it mentions:

now I will leave behind a static IP assignments. Most of the rest of this article shall apply equally to static and dynamic distribution, except in the details of how the IP addresses are actually assigned. Dynamic is what most of the situation, we’re trying to clarify here related.
So, let’s insert a router into the mix. It is located between the computer and the internet. When you turn on or attaching it to connect to your ISP, one of the first things it does is ask the IP address:

Note that the router questions and get an IP address; which now identifies it on the internet.
At some point, you can turn on your computer, which is connected to the router. It also must request an IP address:

The computer was requested by the router this time and get an IP address from the router. Note that “192 168”. Address is special. You will never find on the internet. Those are reserved for local networks, like what we’re building. In fact, if you connect a second computer to your router, you are building a local area network:

Note that the two computers have a unique IP address is assigned from the router.
And the router has its own IP address to connect it to the internet.
Network Address Translation at work

Now, what happens when one of the computer makes a request to access the internet? The computer with the internet through the router, so the first step looks like this:

then the router must transmit that request to the Internet:

To the internet, it looks like the router is made on demand. Remember, the Internet can not see the IP address of your internal, so the service router from the internal address (192.168.1.100) to outside (1.2.3.4 in this example). When the response comes, the same translation happens in reverse:

The router keeps track of the computers in the LAN side that request and the route of an appropriate response.
That is what is called NAT (Network Address Translation). The router management IP address on a LAN, or Local Area Network, and then transferred to the appropriate IP address as the connection is made through it.
Why NAT?

There are two main reasons why NAT is used, even if only one computer can be connected to a router:
All the devices behind the router appears to use the exact same IP address on the Internet. You may have heard that the internet is “running out” of IP addresses, and this technique was originally developed as a way around that. It is a way to connect with a large number of computers to the internet while using only a single IP address.
Connection can only be started walking. This means that your computer behind the router can make a connection to a server on the Internet, as perhaps https:hotmailsigninvl.com. Once established, the connection then can transfer data in either direction, but it has been initiated by your computer. A computer on the Internet by default can not initiate a connection to your computer – there’s simply no protocol to pass through the router while towards the rear. This is why I very often mention a NAT router as a firewall, because ultimately that’s what a firewall does is good. It prevents the computer from outside your random connections.
Even if the first issue is not a problem, I’d still recommend using a NAT router as a firewall. It’s simple and good.
IPv6?

Internet Protocol version 6 is designed to remove all IP address issues. Each device on the planet can have its own IPv6 address – they can have more, if that turns out to be useful. There’s just a lot. (340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 in theory, although I’m sure the actual limit is somewhat less.)
As I mentioned above, even if the IP address does not need games, Network Address Translation provided by the router turns out to provide a security interest so important. I do not see the technique that will come anytime soon. And it certainly can still do NAT for IPv6.

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