Actually, this is the way the POP protocol is designed to work, defaulting to downloading the message onto the local machine and then removing the message from the server. It is older than IMAP, which was developed after hard drive space became less expensive (so that servers could afford to dedicate more space per user), and people also started having more than one device that they read email from.
On May 18, 2015 10:09:42 AM CDT, Alexandre Oberlin <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Giangi and John for your replies. I was not notified of them, > that’s > why I reply only now. > > I don’t feel very much like switching to IMAP because I fear to lose > the > little amount of control I still have on my email. > > Your suggested solutions have always been in effect: > 1. I always leave messages on server in the K9 and also in the stock > Android mail app (still used on another phone). > 2. "Mark as read when opened" is unchecked in K9. > 3. Leaving messages on server in the computer’s email clients settings > does > not help. However it seems that I get different behaviours when using > different clients on computer. > 4. Gmail is set not to mark messages as read when downloaded by an > email > client. > > Yet if I open messages on K9 or stock app, I won’t be able to download > them > later. The only way to retrieve them locally is to go to Gmail on the > web > and forward them to myself. > > I am so tired of all this showoff outside an amateurship inside > software > programs... (commercial ones included). > > Cheers, > > Alexandre > > > On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 12:20:51 PM UTC+2, Alexandre Oberlin > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I primarily switched to K9 because whatever email client on my > computer, > > it wouldn’t download my gmail messages (POP3) if they had been > previously > > listed (not necessarily opened) on Android’s stock email client. > Things > > seemed better with K9 but now it happens again. > > > > Basically I want to automatically check my email on Android while > having > > the messages downloaded later on my computer using an email client. > Is that > > asking for the moon? Is there a possibility to do this *reliably* ? > I tried > > to turn Sync off but then my email just wasn’t checked at all. > > > > Alexandre > > > > > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail > Users List. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, email [email protected] > To report an issue with K-9 Mail, visit > http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/list > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "K-9 Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] (615) 299-6451 "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail Users List. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, email [email protected] To report an issue with K-9 Mail, visit http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/list For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
