BIll Spikowski wrote:
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...
I think I have everything working the way I want now, thanks to all who
contributed!
In about:config, under 'mail.imap.expunge_threshold_number', the setting was 20
(the default apparently). When I remove spam, there's usually a hundred or even
a thousand. When I remove unwanted messages from in inbox, it's always below
20. So that may have been my problem; I reset that from 20 to 2.
Also -- the IMAP "Remove it immediately" setting sure doesn't do that; it's just an IMAP thing, or some
problem with my mail server. I changed the 'When I delete a message' setting to "Move it to this folder" and
shunted the messages to a junk folder. Then I selected "Clean up ("Expunge") Inbox on Exit"
Some combination of those changes got everything working!
I found these resources on-line that helped demystify IMAP:
http://deflexion.com/2006/05/imap-way-of-deleting-message
https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/page.php?id=16718
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Deleting_messages_in_IMAP_accounts
http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=55073
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