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James B From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2023 1:38 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: How do I prevent my emails from being deleted on multiple devices If you use more than one device what you should want is for both devices to show exactly the same thing. For example, if you are out and about and get an email and reply to it on your iPhone, I at least would want to see on my computer that the email was replied to and that the reply is there in the sent folder or wherever I move it to. Similarly, if I delete an email I delete it because I either don’t want it because it’s spam or I am done with it. In that case why would I not want said email to be deleted on all my devices? As others pointed out, IMAP and Microsoft Exchange are protocols where your mail, contacts and so on are stored on the server of your provider and a local copy of the data is synced to your devices. The sync works both ways, you read an email on one device and it shows as read on the other, you reply to an email and it shows as replied to on the other, you sent an email on one device and the message is in your sent items folder on the other device or devices. You add a contact on your iPhone while you are out and about and that contact is also there on your computer and vice versa. It may take a little getting used to, but this is the way email should work when multiple devices are involved, POP3 is an old protocol which was never designed for a situation where 2 or more devices are involved, yes, you can specify to “leave mail on server” on one device, but then this does not do anything for other stuff, e.g. if you were to send a message to somebody on your iPhone with an account set up as POP3, then that message you sent lives on your iPhone only and you would never know it was sent if you looked at the sent messages on your computer. I know a few people on this list love to live in the past and they think POP3 is the reinvention of the wheel but it’s definitely not. The other advantage of IMAP or Exchange of course is the fact that everything is backed up already and if you get a new device whether computer or iPhone, you don’t even have to think about backing up your Outlook data file and then restoring it and all that. All you do is you enter your credentials on the new device when you set up the account and everything magically appears. From: 'john riehl' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2023 7:31 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com <mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: How do I prevent my emails from being deleted on multiple devices I use Microsoft-365, windows-10 on my desktop as my primary email program. I only use my iPhone on occasion, mostly when I go out of my house. I recently had to switch my Outlook-365 Verizon account from POP to IMAP. This means that, unfortunately, my emails are no longer deleted from the server after I download them on my desktop, so they come into my phone, too. It also seems to mean that when I delete an email on my phone or desktop, it’s also somehow deleted from the other device. I emphatically do not want that. How do I prevent this from happening? Thanks John Riehl -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu <mailto:mk...@ucla.edu> . 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