>From the help center page: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/13287?hl=en
"Your POP settings in Gmail settings are what determines whether or not messages stay on the server, so this setting in your client won't affect how Gmail handles your mail." On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Danial Pearce <[email protected]>wrote: > I have just setup gmail to download email from my POP3 server, which is > working correctly. > > I made special care to NOT tick the box that says "Leave a copy of the > retrieved message on the server." > > However, I am noticing that gmail does not delete the messages, they > remain on the POP server. Is this a bug in gmail? It would seem pretty > self explanatory to me, there is only the 1 setting for gmail to delete the > emails after fetching, unless I am missing something? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
