[X-Newbies] Apple Mail Server Question

[W Lane]

On 08-Oct-18, at 19:54: 24, Thomas McDermott wrote:

> Good evening,
> 	I was wondering if someone could explain something to me regarding  
> how the Mail program handles deleting mail from my server. On my  
> macbook and iPhone I have the mail setting to leave mail on server  
> unless I delete it.


OK, so 'permanently on server'


>  When I have used eudora and thunderbird it seemed to remove the  
> messages from the server the next time the program checked for new  
> mail.

Based, I assume, on how you had it set up, which sounds entirely  
different than the way you have set up Mail.


>  With Mail it doesn't seem to work that way...at least not right away.

Of course not, you've told it 'leave mail on server unless I delete it'


>  If I delete a message from Mail, check for mail and then shut Mail  
> down right away the message is still on the server when I get to my  
> home pc.

More likely, assuming that the home PC has been checking mail in your  
absence, it downloaded a copy before you did the 'delete'


>  If I leave Mail running and it checks mail at its assigned interval  
> the messages will eventually be removed from the server.

When you tell them to, right?  Otherwise, you most definitely do not  
have it set to 'leave mail on server unless I delete it'

>  I guess the long winded question is why that is and what causes the  
> delay in mail removal?

Your setting of 'leave mail on server unless I delete it' I would  
suspect.



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William Lane
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