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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6198208" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>"I had my home computer/Outlook set up to delete messages from the server when I checked my email."</p><p></p><p>This right here is the source of all your problems.</p><p></p><p>I cannot use enough swear words to emphasize how this is the most horrible configuration to possibly be running with your email.</p><p></p><p>It's called POP3.</p><p></p><p>It's an anciently crappy protocol based on the idea that a human would only possibly access their email from a single machine ever.</p><p></p><p>Thus, the email on your PC is a copy of whats on the server, or a Move of what was on the server (the deleted scenario).</p><p></p><p>Once you have one client deleting, you are in a race condition with a second client to see who sees it.</p><p></p><p>If you use the "just copy" mode, now you've got emails piling up and filling up your server, and your email clients will get stupid about that as well.</p><p></p><p>What you NEED to do ASAP is switch to an email provider (like Google) that provides IMAP or Exchange based connections.</p><p></p><p>IMAP means your client effectively doesn't copy emails down from the server, it always relies on the server as the master copy (note, for performance, your client may CACHE a copy of viewed emails, but it doesn't consider them as the defacto master copy). This means, when you delete a file, it sends a signal to the server to delete that file.</p><p></p><p>This means, that multiple clients can read the same email account's inbox and come back with the same answer. No confusion, no mad calf scramble to see who downloads it first.</p><p></p><p>Anybody not running IMAP is asking for the kind of problems you describe. They were solved by inventing a new protocol that was called IMAP. There is nothing magical about IMAP, just some providers (like Hotmail) are total retards about not enabling IMAP.</p><p></p><p>Sorry for being harsh, but run, don't walk to your nearest IMAP providing email provider.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 6198208, member: 8835"] "I had my home computer/Outlook set up to delete messages from the server when I checked my email." This right here is the source of all your problems. I cannot use enough swear words to emphasize how this is the most horrible configuration to possibly be running with your email. It's called POP3. It's an anciently crappy protocol based on the idea that a human would only possibly access their email from a single machine ever. Thus, the email on your PC is a copy of whats on the server, or a Move of what was on the server (the deleted scenario). Once you have one client deleting, you are in a race condition with a second client to see who sees it. If you use the "just copy" mode, now you've got emails piling up and filling up your server, and your email clients will get stupid about that as well. What you NEED to do ASAP is switch to an email provider (like Google) that provides IMAP or Exchange based connections. IMAP means your client effectively doesn't copy emails down from the server, it always relies on the server as the master copy (note, for performance, your client may CACHE a copy of viewed emails, but it doesn't consider them as the defacto master copy). This means, when you delete a file, it sends a signal to the server to delete that file. This means, that multiple clients can read the same email account's inbox and come back with the same answer. No confusion, no mad calf scramble to see who downloads it first. Anybody not running IMAP is asking for the kind of problems you describe. They were solved by inventing a new protocol that was called IMAP. There is nothing magical about IMAP, just some providers (like Hotmail) are total retards about not enabling IMAP. Sorry for being harsh, but run, don't walk to your nearest IMAP providing email provider. [/QUOTE]
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