There is a distinct possibility here and it depends on how the email was setup on the old PC. There are (bit of a simplification) two main ways by which an email client can be setup, using what is called POP or IMAP. Both appear to do the same what what is happening behind the scenes is quite different.
With POP new email is downloaded from the server onto the local machine and then deleted from the server (in VM’s case, for historic reasons it’s not exactly deleted but rather marked as ‘downloaded and read so ignore in future’). Sent email is not uploaded to the server for long term storage at all and only exists on the local machine. POP only understands the concept of an inbox, no sub folders, no sent items folder etc.
IMAP keeps all sent email and received email on the server and ‘copies’ these to the local machine. It mirrors any sub folders and the entire structure. So if the original PC was setup as IMAP then all the emails would be on the server and if the new laptop was also set up with an IMAP connection, then it would pickup all the historic emails from the inbox and sent items.
So if your friend’ PC was originally set up as a POP connection, then there won’t be any inbox or sent items email on the server to download - everything would exist only on the old PC and would need to be extracted form that and copied to the new laptop.
If you send your friend a new email, does he receive it on the new laptop setup? Additionally if you send an email from it, is it received OK?
