Just to add, for clarity, that means to say it deletes server-side what has 
been deleted from the inbox in k9 (hence the issue I have). Items left in 
the inbox in k9 remain on the server until I sync back at the office... :)

On Saturday, 23 January 2016 16:54:45 UTC, Paul Hudson wrote:
>
> k9 actually has a "keep messages on server" feature and I have it set to 
> delete server-side. This is how I want it, so when I'm on the move, I don't 
> need to go through what can often be lots of unwanted email again when I 
> return to the office.
>
> On Saturday, 23 January 2016 16:19:58 UTC, Balaco Baco wrote:
>>
>>
>> > I do not believe that there is any facility in the POP protocol to 
>> > "re-sync back to the POP server". It's a "store and retrieve [and 
>> > delete]" (initially "retrieve only once") protocol. 
>> > 
>>
>> Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Seamonkey and other email clients 
>> (including webmail interfaces) have a POP3 option that "keep messages on 
>> the server. This mean they are downloaded to the machine where the 
>> client is running, but they are not removed from the server. I have used 
>> this feature to "pretend" that a POP3 access only account behaved less 
>> destructibly and as I needed it doing. My use of it was pretty much the 
>> same for other accounts in the same client - but all other accounts were 
>> IMAP, and did not have this option, of course. 
>>
>> I don't know if this is enough to say that K-9 should have this feature. 
>> But it is possible, somehow, to make it work like that. 
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> http://www.fastmail.com - IMAP accessible web-mail 
>>
>>

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