[GRLUG] Thunderbird not leaving mail on server

[John Wesorick]

I've always used POP when I set up mail clients for myself, just so I
always have a backup on the server, and then I can delete what I want on
the client. Of course, I haven't used a mail client in a while. One thing
that may be causing it is there are the same settings that need to be
configured on some mail servers. You may want to look at that. In GMail I
think it defaults to delete messages from the server when accessed with POP.

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:38 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org>wrote:

> On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 01:18:58PM -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > It looks like Thunderbird at some point changed the account on the Win
> > box to IMAP. (When T'bird did an upgrade?--I'm quite sure the account
> > was set up as POP.)
> >
> > I like the way POP has worked: I can access mail from other boxes when I
> > want to but it stays on the server till I download to my main Evolution
> > mail client on the Linux box. And it doesn't disappear when I delete it
> > from a client on a different box. What reason would there be to change
> > my main account to IMAP rather than changing the Win/Thunderbird client
> > to POP?
>
> To echo what megadave said, and to add very little to the conversation,
> IMAP is *designed* to work the way you're intending whereas POP can be
> forced to sort of work that way.
>
> > On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 12:52 -0400, megadave wrote:
> > > I assume this is POP. POP is a horrid protocol. Looks like your email
> > > host supports IMAP, I would strong consider using that instead of POP.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Eric Beversluis
> > > <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> > > > I thought I had set up my Thunderbird mail on my Win box to leave the
> > > > mail on the server so it would then download to my main linux box.
> But
> > > > now I'm finding that the mail, once downloaded to the Windows mail,
> > > > isn't coming to the Linux box. When I look under tools/account
> settings,
> > > > I can't find the usual checkbox to "leave mail on server." Why would
> > > > this be gone?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
>
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