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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1635299"><p>Without knowing if your email account is POP or IMAP, it's hard to say what the problem might be, but what you describe is common with POP accounts. The best solution is to change them to IMAP if that option is available to you, or forward your POP mail to an IMAP account like iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo, etc.</p><p></p><p>In a nutshell, here's the problem: POP was designed to be used by one person, downloading mail onto one device. Once delivered, the mail was either retained on the server for a while, or deleted off the server immediately (depends on how you have your mail account configured). But every time you check it again, everything's new again because POP doesn't keep track of what happens to it when you do something to your mail.</p><p></p><p>IMAP, on the other hand, does -- which is why its great for multiple device owners. IMAP "syncs the status" of your email (read, forwarded, deleted etc) to the server, so when you check from another device, you don't see read mail marked as unread (etc).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1635299"] Without knowing if your email account is POP or IMAP, it's hard to say what the problem might be, but what you describe is common with POP accounts. The best solution is to change them to IMAP if that option is available to you, or forward your POP mail to an IMAP account like iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo, etc. In a nutshell, here's the problem: POP was designed to be used by one person, downloading mail onto one device. Once delivered, the mail was either retained on the server for a while, or deleted off the server immediately (depends on how you have your mail account configured). But every time you check it again, everything's new again because POP doesn't keep track of what happens to it when you do something to your mail. IMAP, on the other hand, does -- which is why its great for multiple device owners. IMAP "syncs the status" of your email (read, forwarded, deleted etc) to the server, so when you check from another device, you don't see read mail marked as unread (etc). [/QUOTE]
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