sean nathan wrote:
Welcome to February fellow Seamonkey devotees! I have performed a fresh
install of SM 2.49.1 today after a distro upgrade to PeppermintOS linux
8 respin 2.
All of my imap accounts worked flawlessly as I created each account. I
have generally stuck to pop3 access in the past, but I am finding out
via imap that e'mail that I thought I had deleted long ago, by
downloading to my machines, still resides on the e'mail servers.
Wondering if I am missing some checkbox which deletes the email from the
servers? I have always assumed the act of downloading my e'mail removes
the copy from cox.net, gmail & outlook... all of my yahoo accounts work
that way.
IMAP synchronises emails on the PC with the server. Downloaded emails
stay on the server. If you delete an email from the PC, it also gets
deleted from the server. If you delete on the server, it will be deleted
from the PC next time it syncs.
POP3 downloads email from the server to the PC. Whether it is left on
the server having done so is optional. See the settings at Edit > Mail &
Newsgroups Account Settings > (select your account) > Server Settings,
in particular "Leave messages on server", "For at most...days" and
"Until I delete them".
GMail is different (as always...) When using POP3, the server ignores
the client's instructions as to whether to delete the email. Instead you
have to log in to <https://mail.google.com/> and go to GMail's settings.
On the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab is a setting "When messages are
accessed with POP" with options "keep Gmail's copy in the Inbox", "mark
Gmail's copy as read", "archive Gmail's copy" or "delete Gmail's copy".
--
Mark.
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