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I've recently reinstalled Outlook 2007 and am having an issue with existing emails being downloaded again.

I backed up and imported my PST so all original messages are in Outlook already. I have Outlook configured as a POP account and set to leave messages on the server for two weeks. This is because I have my phone setup as IMAP and need to access the messages on there. For various reasons, I don't want to setup Outlook as IMAP.

It seems that the messages are being recognized and pulled down again. Is there any way around this?

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No. POP3 messages are indexed by a UUID and it is up to the client to remember which UUIDs have been downloaded. This information is not stored in the PST file.

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Ok, so I guess I'm out of luck this time. I presume the downloaded UUIDs are stored in a file(s) by Outlook. If I need to do this again in the future, is there a way to backup that file? – Ryan Brooks May 9 '11 at 13:53
The data should be stored with the account settings somewhere. I am not sure where Outlook stores it exactly. – Majenko May 9 '11 at 14:15
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