I've since discovered on superuser.com that apparently under pop3 protocol. if an email client retrieves messages from the server (but leaves a copy on the server) this causes messages on the server to be marked as read. (Thanks to superuser member JdeBP for this enlightenment.) So it's nothing to do with K-9, just my misunderstanding of pop3. ... thought I'd better mention that. :-) (If only I'd read RFCs 1081 and 1939 before I posted. <sigh>)
On Saturday, 5 December 2015 14:42:07 UTC+10, Roger V. wrote: > > Greetings, > I've got K-9 version 5.006 set up to fetch mail from 3 accounts using > pop-3 protocol (not IMAP) . Needless to say, I think it's great, except for > the above mentioned problem. How I'd expect it to work is to fetch mail > from the server, and allow me to read it locally without affecting the > server messages, so my wife can read the emails using a web mail interface, > and keep track of what she's read and not read independently of me. > Instead, she's alerted me to the fact that they were being marked as read. > I traced this to my phone and K-9 marking them as read on the server each > time I retrieve them. > As I said, K-9 appears to be set up as pop-3, not IMAP, and from what I've > read about pop-3 it can't mark messages on the server as read. (Hope the > Westnet tech was correct on that score....) > If this is a feature, how can I turn it off? > Thanks in advance for your help, > Roger. > -- -- 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.
