Re: Another Mail conundrum

[Julie Bedford]

Hi Alex

I thought you were being funny at first !  Here is the link - and email. - 
Cheers Jewels

Hi Jewels

Even if you move them off the Inbox, you can still reference them back. 
My inbox is pretty much empty…..well at this point in time it is completely 
empty as I’ve done all the days emails and filed it all away,..to start afresh 
tomorrow. (And I know it annoys Ronni when I say my Inbox is zero,….lol….). But 
I can still go back and search for every single email right back to whenever I 
want,…and it will search all folders regardless of where I stored emails to.

And yes, if you have them being set to delete from the server,…this will be 
affecting IMAP. Once you delete emails from the inbox at the server,…it deletes 
them out of IMAP folders. POP3 is completely different. So you really want them 
out of your Inbox (and off the server,…stored locally). This will then free up 
space on your iinet server,…and not have the delete issue.
This link to understanding how IMAP and POP works may help - 
https://www.name.com/support/articles/205935497-Understanding-the-difference-between-POP-and-IMAP
 

https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/email/pop3-imap-smtp-protocols-explained-ports
 



But if you’ve reached your iinet server,…and you have it set to delete after 
month at iinet,…then that is why it’s deleting from your Inbox. As that is how 
IMAp works.

Kind regards
Daniel
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Daniel Kerr
MacWizardry
> On 21 Nov 2019, at 12:43 AM, Alex  wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> just to add to “mysterious”Mail goings on, I would like to know how I can 
> lose emails into thin air?
> 
> As an example, I have lost Daniel’s reply to Jewels yesterday with the link 
> to info about imap & pop.  Now I would have thought that if I had 
> inadvertently deleted the message or moved it to another folder, when I did a 
> search, it would appear again.  But not so.  this also happened a few days 
> ago when I had my finger hovering above another message while thinking - it 
> also disappeared into the ether!
> 
> Now, I am a believer in operator error, but the logic of this situation 
> baffles me.  (I haven’t emptied the Trash folder this evening which I usually 
> do on a daily basis)
> 
> Sorry I can’t give more specific info, except using a MacBook Pro 2018 High 
> Sierra.
> 
> Cheers & thanks,
> 
> Alex
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Another Mail conundrum

[Alex]

Hi All,

just to add to “mysterious”Mail goings on, I would like to know how I can lose 
emails into thin air?

As an example, I have lost Daniel’s reply to Jewels yesterday with the link to 
info about imap & pop.  Now I would have thought that if I had inadvertently 
deleted the message or moved it to another folder, when I did a search, it 
would appear again.  But not so.  this also happened a few days ago when I had 
my finger hovering above another message while thinking - it also disappeared 
into the ether!

Now, I am a believer in operator error, but the logic of this situation baffles 
me.  (I haven’t emptied the Trash folder this evening which I usually do on a 
daily basis)

Sorry I can’t give more specific info, except using a MacBook Pro 2018 High 
Sierra.

Cheers & thanks,

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