Re: imap mail protocol

2011-11-23 Thread Travis Siegel
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

Re: imap mail protocol

2011-11-23 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Zack That's true; but the fact remains that most mail clients do not properly delete everything on the server. Lynne On 24 Nov 2011, at 01:13, Zachary Kline wrote: Hi Lynn and all, Actually, this is configurable on an account-by-account basis. You can decide for each one whether

Re: imap mail protocol

2011-11-23 Thread Zachary Kline
Dear Lynn, Perhaps not, but I think that if properly configured the problem can at least be minimized, though this does depend on the clients in question. I wonder how much of the issue is caused by users being unaware of the configuration options, and just running the clients with default

Re: imap mail protocol

2011-11-23 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello Zack You're absolutely right; I'm not disputing that for a second. And yes, most users very probably don't bother to configure their applications to optimal. We always change those options in our accounts, always have. But there is still this problem which Travis described. It's quite