It sounds like you do not have one source for your emails. Would using IMAP for Thunderbird solve the problem? -- Be well, Toni Roberts Atlanta/Marietta/Smyrna/Vinings
Blog: http://touchprints.blogspot.com/ On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 5:18 PM, John Messeder <[email protected]>wrote: > > > 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 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/treo/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/treo/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
