I don't use Google but in general set all server settings to delete after 30 days, all email clients to not delete messages from server under any circumstances.
-- sent from my Treo www.TammyEmam.com voice message 404-879-7081 -----Original Message----- From: John Messeder Date: 5/30/10 5:19 pm To: [email protected] Subj: [Treo] IMAP email My Pre is connected to gmail by IMAP, and my PC's Thunderbird is connected by POP3. I just discovered something that confirms what I thought I knew - that when I delete an email from the Pre, it is deleted from gmail's Inbox. That's pretty much what I expected. But when I delete from T-bird (POP) gmail does not delete from the inbox. In fact, Google should be deleting from the inbox when I download to the PC/T-Bird, because that's the way I've got it set up. I've always been frustrated by the need to go to my Google site and manually delete hundreds of emails from the Inbox that I had long ago deleted from T-Bird. I'm guessing that if I set T-Bird to IMAP, whenever I delete from T-Bird, it will not appear, or will be deleted from, the Pre. What I don't want to lose is that if there's something I've read on the Pre that I want to archive on the PC, it will still be there when I get to it. In other words, if I delete from the Pre and Google deletes it from the Inbox, that's fine - but if I only read it on the Pre, and maybe reply to it on the Pre, and then do not delete it, it will remain on Google so I can download and archive it. What I would then hope is if I move it on the PC from T-bird's inbox to some other folder, Google would see that action and delete it from the server. Is this clear as mud, or is there an answer? Before I do something I'll be sorry about - -- *John Messeder* Journalist / Social Anthropologist ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
