[X-Newbies] Apple Mail Server Question

[Thomas McDermott]

William,
	Thanks for taking the time to respond.  To respond to a few things  
you mentioned...the pc at home is off while I am away so its not  
downloading mail at the same time.  I have it checked to leave mail on  
the server until I remove it from my inbox.  If I want to keep a  
message on my server I simply don't delete the message from my  
inbox..but when I delete it and then check mail it still doesn't  
remove it right away...it does eventually.  I was just curious what  
the delay is about.


On Oct 18, 2008, at 10:24 PM, W Lane wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>
>
> -- 
> William Lane
> Calgary, Canada
> via Mac OSX - Mail
>
>
>
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