A lot of (bad in my view) clients mark deleted mail as such, and then provide an "expunge" feature to later delete them. Mac's Mail.app, as well as the iOS clients do what I strongly prefer. Deleted mail is actually not deleted, but MOVED to a designated Trash folder. Client settings on your Mac, iPhone and iPads all control how often the client should permanently delete (expunge) mail in that folder. For years I left mine at "never" but after about 5-6 years of never going back and looking at anything, I set it to expire deleted mail after about a month.
On May 13, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Nathan Sims wrote: > > On May 13, 2011, at 1:05 AM, Scot Hacker wrote: > >> When you use IMAP, actions mean what they say. Delete means delete. For >> practical purposes, you're manipulating mail directly on the server aka a >> central point of access, so of course "delete" deletes from everywhere. >> That's called "consistency" aka "sanity" and it's why IMAP has largely >> replaced POP. > > If in IMAP parlance delete means delete, does that mean if I delete an email > message on/from my iPhone, my iPad (or any other device) will never see it? > I'm confused... > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
