deleting messages from server

[jcd]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Email Client: pop I would like my messages to be deleted from the server after I delete them on my computer. There is an accounts setting (options) for this. I have it checked. In the past this worked - I deleted messages from my in box and they were then deleted from the server. This feature hasn't been working in recent months. What should I do?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I would like my messages to be deleted from the server after I delete
them on my computer. There is an accounts setting (options) for this. I
have it checked. In the past this worked - I deleted messages from my
in box and they were then deleted from the server. This feature hasn't
been working in recent months. What should I do?

Typically, what you are looking for is a feature of IMAP servers, not POP.
The idea with POP is that you download the messages to your Mac and
delete them all from the server (unless you decide to leave a copy
there). In any case, there is no synchronization per se.
Can you access the same server through IMAP??

Corentin

 

[David Marcovitz]

Typically, what you are looking for is a feature of IMAP servers, not POP.
The idea with POP is that you download the messages to your Mac and
delete them all from the server (unless you decide to leave a copy
there). In any case, there is no synchronization per se.
Can you access the same server through IMAP??

Corentin

One additional point. Although POP has an option for deleting messages
from the server when they are downloaded (not when you delete them
locally), this doesn't work with all servers. My office just switched
from GroupWise. I was able to connect with POP, but my messages never
got deleted unless I used the GroupWise client to delete them myself.
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland