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To: Chickensoup
This isn't so much a solution as a "clarification" which might help you in the future.

When you talk about mail staying ON the server, as opposed to downloading it... there are two primary protocols for retrieving e-mail.

POP (Post Office Protocol) version 2 and 3, permit viewing the message index on the remote server, as well as downloading a copy for reading, as well as downloading the messages and deleting them on the remote server.

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) permits everything listed with POP, except it permits the user to create folders and manipulate messages ON the server. IMAP is well suited to web-frontended systems.

Traditionally, IMAP has had more security issues than POP. Most of who use IMAP download messages and keep them locally... NOT remotely.

Anywho... :-)
5 posted on 06/29/2019 10:14:44 AM PDT by hiredhand
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To: hiredhand

Thank you. I did use pop. I suspect this one was made with Imap. I dont know.


9 posted on 06/29/2019 10:20:20 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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