I know nothing about prefixes. What do I set it to, and where do I set it,
in the first place?
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah k Alawami" <[email protected]>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: Really strange problem with Mail on my computers
Do you have your prefix set right in imap mail for all of your accounts? I
dunno if that would solve your problem but that would be something to look
at.
Take care.
On Sep 17, 2013, at 8:46 PM, Chris Gilland <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hey guys.
I'm seeming to have a very odd problem with Mail on all my Apple devices,
be it IOS or OSX. I'm really hoping that someone might be able to shed a
little light on what may be the cause of this.
Basically, here's the deal. I have two e-mail accounts which are both
being quite problematic. One of the accounts is a Gmail account, and the
other one is my work e-mail, which is the address that I subscribe to
this list with. On all of my devices, my IPhone 5, my IPad Mini, my Mac
Mini, my white macbook, and my macbook Pro which I'm writing this mail
from now, by the way, I have both accounts configured to use IMap.
Basically, I did it this way, because essentially, what I want is to be
able to check my e-mail from one system, but then be able to go to
another system and pull up my inbox, or whatever other folder I've stored
remotely on the IMap server and be able to retrieve the exact same
e-mail. This way, say a client e-mails me on my work address, and I'm
like, "Oh shoot! I don't have access to the info they need on this
system," I can then go to the system which does have the info when time
permits, and open up that same message, and respond to it appropriatel
y.
The issue that I'm having is not so much in the fact that this isn't
working as I'd hoped, as much as it is within deleting messages when
done. If I delete an e-mail from one of my systems, it goes away, no
issue. And if I empty my trash in all accounts with
command+shift+delete/backspace, call the last key as you will, I find
then if I go check my e-mail on another system, all that mail I just
deleted from the last time I pulled comes right back down. so, in other
words, say I have about 50 e-mails that come down. I delete all 50 of
them from my macbook Pro. I then head over to my Mac Mini. I open up
Mail, and "Ding!" There comes all 50 of them back down again, even though
I just deleted them on the Macbook. This is the strangest thing I've
seen in Mail. I really don't get it! I could see it if I hadn't deleted
the messages, and just simply quit Mail with command+Q then went and
launched Mail on another device, but that's not what I'm doing. I've
totally hit de
l
ete on each message, usually without even openning half of them being
they're either spam, or things I just don't care to read, then once I do
this, I then hit command+shift+delete/backspace (again call it whichever
you please. I'm talking about the key right above the backslash key.) I
then say yes to empty trash from all accounts. I'll then hit command+Q
to qwuit Mail. Then, about an hour later we'll just call it for sake of
argument, I'll go to another system, pop open Mail, and no sooner do I do
so, when all those exact same messages I just deleted and supposedly
purged from the last time I pulled for mail come right back down into my
inbox again. Now, I confess, I don't know if they're coming to the imap
inbox, or the unified inbox on OSX which has all mail from all accounts.
I normally don't actually mess much with the mailboxes table list. I
usually just leave it on my unified inbox. Probably a stupid thing to
do, but I just find myself getting lost otherwise
.
If you all really think I need to go through there and look at things,
I will, but you're gonna have to tell me specifically where to look and
what things to be checking for.
Also what things in preferences, if any, might I want to look at? I know
this list isn't made for Windows, and frankly, if I get chewed out for
this one comment by either Gordon or Lynn, I'm gonna admittedly be
terribly offended, as I'm just trying to give info here to pinpoint this
down. I even have noticed that if I check mail on the Apple side of
things, then go to my XP machine and bring up Outlook Express and poll
those accounts, which also are configured there with IMap, I see the same
behavior. I delete on the Mac/IOS side, then bring it up in Outlook
Express, and they all come right back down again. I understand that in
Outlook Express, you can't just hit delete on the messages if they're
IMap as that only marks them for deletion. You then have to hit alt+E
for the edit menu, then hit r, for purge items. I do that though. Now,
the same thing vice versa. If I poll on my XP box, delete, then purge,
then alt+F4 out of there, then go to my Mac, open up Mail, the
n
boom! all of those messages from the last pull come down again to my
Mac. It's important that I explain that when I say they come back down,
before you ask, ok, where're they coming down to? They're seeming at
least, to come back down to the unified inbox, and I can almost bet my
money on it, that if I looked in the account's own mailbox's inbox, I'd
see the messages there. It's almost like when I purge/delete the
messages, then even clean them from the trash, they come right back; like
they're somehow not getting purged correctly. It's the strangest thing
I've ever seen! I'm normally really good at trouble shooting this type
thing, but this has me really perplexed, admittedly.
Has anyone got any clue? This is becoming quite annoying, not to mention
is growing really old really fast.
Chris.
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