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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Enforcer" data-source="post: 6198248" data-attributes="member: 396">IMAP keeps all of your clients (mulitple computers, phone, tablet, etc.) all synced. So, if I open my email on my laptop, my inbox, sent, and folders are identical to when I open my email on my phone or on my desktop. (For the record I use Gmail with Apple's Mail application on laptop/desktop and Apple's iOS Mail app on my phone). If I make a change on one: delete (or for me, archive) an email, move an email to a folder, etc., that change propagates to all of my other clients. Is this not what you want? To make this happen you need an IMAP email provider connected to by all of your clients (each device you check email on). I think the way you've set up Outlook on your PC is the culprit here, because altering the server rather than mirroring it will mess up the syncing of your other devices—they will not all look the same. I would recommend: 1) archiving all of your email from Outlook, just in case, and then 2) deleting your email account from Outlook and starting it again from scratch. If your email provider really is IMAP, it should look identical to what you have on your phone.Modern email services like Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, or whatever have enough server storage space that you'll never need to permanently delete something from the server. I've never hit more than 10% of my cap on Gmail, for example. And while some may distrust the idea of having years worth of emails archived like this, I've actually found it very useful on rare occasions when I need to find something 3 years old (usually a license key for some piece of software I need only once a year). Is there some reason you don't want emails to live on the server assuming you have the space? Because with an email provider like Gmail you'll definitely have the space...I also recommend severing the link between your email provider and your ISP. I've had my Gmail account for 10 years, with no need to mess with it or send out mass emails listing an email address change, even though I've lived in probably half a dozen different locations during that time with probably 3-4 different ISPs.</blockquote>

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