I have observed that with Google mail as a prime example, if you delete mail, send it to trash, it recalls this, generating mail from the mail server. if you delete these, it re generates. The advice given is to disable deleted items on the google server through mail, yet this doesn't do the job. I have to log into GMAIL and manually dump data once in a while to do this maintenance. this is fraught with problems, especially when you have some important emails to rely on and they accidentally go missing. then lost forever. Not only that but IMAP has other glitches. Sometimes it will duplicate messages outgoing and then duplicate again, causing a backlog. as well as poor notifications.
that's the beauty and the beast of google mail (TROLL) lew On 23 Nov 2011, at 21:49, Travis Siegel wrote: > This is one of those things that I've been complaining about for years. It's > not just apple either, I don't think I've ever run across an imap server that > behaves properly. > In short, the answer to your question is yes. If you delete things on the > computer, it *should* remove them from the server as well. In practice, this > rarely happens as it should. It looks like it's behaving, but if you move to > a new machine, and start from scratch, you'll find sometimes hundreds of > emails that you *know* you deleted on your other account, that are still > there. The reason it looks like it works, is because the client keeps track > of items too, and it won't show messages it knows it's already removed, even > if the server still has them. > Pop3 suffers from this little quirk too, although, imap doesn't seem to be > nearly as bad as pop3 seems to be, it's still irritating and frustrating, > especially if you have email quotas. > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
