Downloading Imap emails from the server

I have managed with the help of threads to set up my IMAP email account in
Windows mail (previously used MS Outlook 2003 in XP on an earlier PC)
I started by setting it up in MS Outlook 2007 and it download all the emails
from the server. This then crashed and I had to restore Windows back to the
beginning. I have since deleted office 2007 and installed 2003, but couldn't
get IMAP to work. I have now set up Windows mail and all seems well, but I
cannot get the server to download again. I do not know how to ask it to
download, can anyone tell me how to get the server to download, or have I
lost them
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Thanks

In an IMAP service, all emails reside on the server; what you see locally is
a duplicate of what's on the server. Unless you deleted these messages and
instructed the server to purge them, they should still be there and a
Send/Receive should pick them up. You might see if your ISP offers a web
interface to your email account and use this to check and see if they're
still there.

Hal
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"Mark N" <MarkN@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0890870C-EB5D-4592-82F6-4FF826A7EE2F@microsoft.com...
> I have managed with the help of threads to set up my IMAP email account in
> Windows mail (previously used MS Outlook 2003 in XP on an earlier PC)
> I started by setting it up in MS Outlook 2007 and it download all the
emails
> from the server. This then crashed and I had to restore Windows back to
the
> beginning. I have since deleted office 2007 and installed 2003, but
couldn't
> get IMAP to work. I have now set up Windows mail and all seems well, but I
> cannot get the server to download again. I do not know how to ask it to
> download, can anyone tell me how to get the server to download, or have I
> lost them
> --
> Thanks