Multiple devices could all be accessing that mail server at the same time.Your device is simply a “window” into that master copy. The mail server is the official place that email is kept, not your device.It synchronizes in such a way that when you delete on your device, it’s deleted on the server when you read on your device, it’s marked as read on the server when you move things around in folders on your device, things are moved around in folders on the server. IMAP differs in that instead of moving mail to the device you’re using, it simply makes a copy without removing anything from the server unless you tell it to. Most email programs that run on mobile devices use a different protocol, called IMAP, to access email. When a mobile phone accesses email, it does so from your email service provider, of course, but it does so in a different way. In recent years, however, both of those reasons have pretty much been dispensed with.
Mail service providers often limited the amount of space you could use anyway, often to a small enough amount that even the mail that accumulated over a multi-week vacation could exceed what’s called the “quota”, or the amount of space you’d been allocated.Your PC was where you dealt with your mail, so there was no point in having anything on the server after it was downloaded.
This actually made a lot of sense for many reasons, the two most common being: The result is that after the email is copied to your PC, it’s removed from the mail service’s server. POP3, by default, moves the email from the email server to your PC. What that really means is that the programs are configured to use the POP3 email fetching protocol. I’ll review what I think is happening, and then explore the alternatives to fix it.įor years, most desktop email programs were configured to download email from the email service to the computer on which they were running. With more and more people reading email on their smartphones, this is actually a pretty common situation, as it’s very easy to misconfigure things when adding a phone to your setup and have email seemingly disappear.
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