Doesn't apply to POP, what I said. IMAP is stored on the server so if he deleted them all on his machine then next time you logged in they would also disappear from yours.
(Who set up the forwarding?) >From my iPhone On 13 Dec 2010, at 12:03, Martin Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jason, > > I am looking at the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" settings in Gmail. It tells me > that POP is enabled for all mail that has arrived since Dec 12. It is also > set When messages are accessed with POP that it keeps Google Mail's copy in > the inbox. (Another option is to archive Google Mail's copy.) > > Can you explain how to avoid the issue you mention about account syncing? Is > this something I turn off in Google Mail? I have all the emails in that > hotmail account (there are thousands and thousands of them) and I would hate > to lose them. > > Martin > > On 13 Dec 2010, at 11:07, Jason Davies wrote: > >> make sure you don't have the account synced such that his deleting them all >> would also delete your local version. I recommend something absurdly secure >> like creating a new user on the Mac, downloading the whole lot, then turning >> off interet access for that account before logging out. Then you have a >> cast-iron version for reference in Mail. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
