On 03/08/2016 02:12 PM, Cindy Backstein wrote:
Many of us want to leave certain emails on the server after receiving
into our phone as we then download those same emails into our computer
when we come home.
However to delete all emails on the server as soon as you receive them
into your phone, was a setting I could not find. I am wondering if you
could find such a setting on your server side that says once your emails
are downloaded the server would delete them?
POP3 gives you two options from the client side:
1) Leave message on server after download
2) Delete message from server after download
I know of no POP3 client that allows you to decide to delete e-mails
from the server on per-email basis, although maybe Eudora used to have
that option. I haven't used POP3 in probably a decade or longer so I
don't remember all the considerations.
For more robust control of your e-mail, IMAP is the answer. While K-9
has no local folder options, you can choose to delete e-mail from the
server when you delete it from the client. Or leave e-mail on the
server. Or, in the case of a desktop client, move a message to local
storage so you can both save it and not have it on the server.
Honestly, if I was the head developer for K-9, I'd drop POP3 support
altogether. It might be a very easy protocol to support, but I keep
seeing requests to do things POP3 wasn't meant to do. Especially for
mobile devices, if you're checking from more than one client, IMAP is
far better.
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