POP3 is a retrieval method. It touches a message once, and that's it. You can have it delete it then, if the server supports that, or not, but once you've touched it, you're done and can't touch it again.
IMAP, on the other hand, is good for synchronizing, like you're talking about, so if they can access it that way, that would be an option. But since I don't believe GMail supports IMAP retrieval from other accounts, I don't think you can do what you are wanting to do. If their school server supports delete on retrieval, then they should just do that, and manage it all through GMail. On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Maxime MICLO <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone > > I have a trouble with a request of two of my friends I have converted to > Gmail. > They have a professional mail account hosted by a different provider for > their work and they both need to read emails sent to this address. So I set > up for both of them POP3 checking with no deletion on the original mail > server. > But they would want also to synchronize the deletion actions between their > two account to be sure to not do the same work twice, and they wouldn't > want to have to switch between accounts. I tried solutions with IFTTT and a > third Gmail account (with delegated access) but I didn't find any good > answer to this request. > > I'm pretty sure that a good solution exists but I'm blocked, so I need > your help to solve their problem please. > > Thanks by advance. > > -- > 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.
