See the article "Using POP on multiple clients or mobile devices" https://support.google.com/mail/answer/47948?hl=en
It simply involves setting up the clients with "recent:" prepended to the email address. I used to use this with outlook on multiple computers - then I invested some time to understand IMAP and never looked back. DJL -----Original Message----- From: k-9-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:k-9-mail@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Philip Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 3:33 PM To: k-9-mail@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [k-9-mail] Re: Switch to Google Apps From: k-9-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:k-9-mail@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of mathguy Sent: Monday, June 9, 2014 11:09 PM > Okay. Something is going on between Outlook and K9. If I download a > message in Outlook, it won't come to K9. If I beat Outlook to it with K9, > then it won't download in > Outlook. So, I suspect that it is a setting that > needs to be done in gmail. Even though that is a little outside the scope of > this forum, any clue as to what I need to do? Thanks. I have the same problem with Gmail, and only with Gmail (I have a number of email accounts on many different servers). It appears that it does not fully respect the "leave email on server" request, and instead marks messages as "read" as soon as one client (whether it's Outlook or K-9 that gets there first) has read the message. I've looked hard (and in vain) for any switch in Gmail that will make it correspond to the normal expected behaviour. I think it's another case where Google thinks that it knows best :-( -- Philip A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail Users List. To post to this group, send email to k-9-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, email k-9-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com To report an issue with K-9 Mail, visit http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/list For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to k-9-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail Users List. To post to this group, send email to k-9-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, email k-9-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com To report an issue with K-9 Mail, visit http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/list For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to k-9-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.