On 7/25/14 11:00 PM, BIll Spikowski wrote:
Miles Fidelman wrote:
BIll Spikowski wrote:
I generally use POP for email, so I'm most familiar with how it works. I
download all my email to my office computer and store it permanently there.
When I look at my email from somewhere else, I can save it or delete it, but it
still ends up on my office computer for archiving, which is the behavior I want.
I've begun using IMAP as well so I can occasionally look at all the emails on
the server that Spam Assassin has marked as spam and decide which ones I'd like
to actually look at and which should be permanently removed.
When I'm traveling, I used to have IMAP set up on my laptop so that I could
delete regular email I didn't want to look at again but which wasn't deemed
spam by Spam Assassin.
Somehow that doesn't work any more. In my IMAP account on my laptop, I can
permanently delete spam and it's GONE. But when I delete non-spam emails from
the inbox, they still appear on my office computer when I return.
Maybe I've just messed up some settings in Seamonkey, though nothing seems
amiss. Is there some other reason that my IMAP account can permanently delete
messages from the server's spam folder but can't permanently delete messages
from the server's inbox?
Are you leaving your office computer powered up? Sounds like POP is just doing
its thing and downloading stuff before you delete it
Yes I leave it powered up -- and make sure EVERY NIGHT that no seamonkey.exe
process is running in the background, because I've learned that for some reason
even an invisible seamonkey.exe process makes my Seamonkey POP account aware of
new messages, even if it doesn't download them until I open the mail client.
It could also be a configuration issue - how are you configuring IMAP to delete things
(move to trash, mark as deleted, delete immediately) - if you have it set to "mark
as deleted," it's still in your inbox until you expunge -- in which case, the
question becomes how your POP client handles mail that's been marked, but not yet
expunged.
I have the IMAP accounts set to "remove immediately" -- but I wondered if my server might interpret
"immediately" differently than I do -- say automatically once a day instead of "right
now"! That could be the problem; I should experiment a bit and see what happens...
It's important to expunge the inbox for its contents to be updated on
the server. That is done by settings (expunge on exit) or by compacting
the inbox folder in SeaMonkey; otherwise, there will be a delay in
folder contents as experienced by a subsequent POP3 access.
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