Actually that is not strictly true. My laptop, using Outlook, is set to remove messages from the POP server. It is a setting you chose when setting up the email account.
I also use whatever email client comes standard on my IPad. When I set up the mail account on it, I chose the setting to not delete messages when downloaded. That way I see all the messages on my laptop and can chose which to archive, delete, etc. The SPAM blocker for either Windows or MacAfee seems to work a lot better than twhatever is on the IPad, so I get a lot fewer letters from Nigerian royalty and folks in Russia with a miracle cure for my diabetes. I do need to keep my IPad turned off (as opposed to sleep mode) so it does not periodically download messages on the server. But when I am on the boat or carrying only the IPad, I turn it on and it downloads whatever messages are on the server - and leaves them there to be downloaded on the laptop at some later time. What I understand you to be saying, though, is that with all Apple devices, and with all set up on an IMAP account, you can look at the messages you have on any of the devices. And when you delete a message after looking at it on the IPad, you will not see it again on the phone, MacBook, etc.? Rick Brass Washington, NC From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Frederick G Street via CnC-List Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2015 10:29 AM To: Indigo; cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Email List or Forum With POP, as soon as a client connects, the message is downloaded from the server to that client only; there's no good way to keep things synchronized. Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( On Mar 14, 2015, at 11:09 PM, Indigo via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: I am no expert - but believe you have to set up your email account as an IMAP account rather than POP3. With IMAP, the various mail clients are synchronized so that if you delete an email on one device, it is deleted from all. (I have 4 devices from which I can read / send emails - so it was critical for me to have this feature). I don't use gmail - I have my own domain with godaddy and it was not difficult to set the account as IMAP - not sure if gmail can be so easily configured -- Jonathan Indigo C&C 35III SOUTHPORT CT
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