deeve wrote:

I also don't understand why Outlook 2007 is not capable of
downloading files from my email server and deleting when I had
successfully done this with Outlook Express for many years.

Years ago, MSN allowed POP access to its mail servers. They stopped that.
Outlook Express can't do it now either.

I tried
setting up my accounts a pop3 but was informed they could only now
work under the IMAP options.. feels like yet another Microsoft
monopoly?

"IMAP" is probably not what was displayed. "MAPI", perhaps. I don't
believe MSN/Hotmail allows IMAP access either and I can't imagine what
"monopoly" you mean. Any mail provider has every right to dictate what
protocols must be used to access their servers.

I do have all accounts set to download full content but this just
does not happen. BTW - I'm running Outlook on Vista, for my sins.

MSN/Hotmail accounts do not download messages in the same sense that POP
accounts do. Instead, they echo the contents of the server mailbox to a set
of matching folders on your own PC. Change one and the other synchs
automatically. If you wish to remove the messages from the server, then
just select them and delete them. If you wish to be able to see them but
remove them from the server (although it's not really needed), then create a
set of local folders and move the messages from the server to those local
folders.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]