Re: Mail mirroring

> > Well I've been keeping tabs on my webmail and its not working.  I 
> > deleted a message from my POP OS X Mail Inbox folder and its still
there 
> > on webmail ever after deleting it in the POP OS X Mail trash and 
> > restarting OS X Mail.  Has anybody got this feature to work?
> 
> I could be wrong but I think you're getting POP and IMAP mixed up.
> 
> For POP, the main interaction of your email program (client) with the 
> mail server is retrieving mail. The mail client only deletes messages 
> from the server per your settings. For messages that you have already 
> downloaded, they'll hang around in your mail client until you delete the

> local copy.   

Well OS X Mail says it will delete the copy off the server once its been 
removed from my Inbox to mirror one to the other.  Unfortunately that's 
not working here.  Deleting something in my Mail Inbox doesn't have any 
effect on my webmail Inbox.  But it should. 
 
> In other words, deleting your local copy of a message does not delete 
> the same copy of the message server side. If deletion hasn't already 
> occurred per your mail client settings (say in mail.app), the message 
> remains on the server until you delete it manually at the webmail 
> interface or until some server side limit kicks in. 

Please look at OS X Mail, in Preferences, in Advanced.  Do you not see 
"Remove copy from server after retrieving a message" and below that an 
option to select "When removed from Inbox"?  Unless I can't read English 
I would say that with that properly working my Mail Inbox should mirror 
my webmail Inbox.  
 
> With IMAP, there is more interaction between the server and your local 
> folders for that account. How can I describe it... it's more of a "live"

> connection between your mail client and the server. To me, it sounds 
> like you're expecting more of an IMAP behavior from an account that's 
> set up to be handled as POP.

Yes - that would be nice if IMAP mirrored created folders in OS X.  But 
for now, I'd be happy if this well thought out feature in OS X Mail 
actually worked.