Re: Mail mirroring

The NewGuy <noemailhere@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> So I'm using POP mail with 10.4.11's Mail.  Today I thought 
> (brainlessly) to try out something new.  I wanted to mirror my POP Inbox
> with my webmail Inbox for a backup.  Seemed like the option "Remove copy
> from server after retrieving a message" would facilitate that.  So I 
> click the "Remove Now" button.  It wiped out my entire webmail inbox!  I
> thought it should have removed only the messages I had already removed.
> For example, say today I receive 100 emails.  I keep 5.  Once I've 
> trimmed my POP Inbox down to 5, there should be 5 in my webmail Inbox.
> But no.  Then the idiots that designed the webmail opted for automatic
> Trash deletion upon logout.  So everything was wiped out.  Brilliant.
> 
> Is this typical?  My ISP blamed the OS X Mail program but I have my 
> doubts.

That's correct POP mail behaviour. Yes, it was caused by Mail but
exactly the same would happen with any POP mail application which was
set to delete after retrieving.

-- 
Adrian