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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1328893"><p>Bottom line is that POP mail service, which is what Yahoo and most ISPs still offer, is antiquated in the age of multiple personal mail-capable devices.</p><p></p><p>When you told the PC to auto-delete the emails from the server, your Mac (which is set up to mirror the server's state) did the same at the next sync. This is the problem with POP -- it's intended for ONE receiving machine, not multiple.</p><p></p><p>Yahoo offers IMAP mail, but I believe they charge for it. I'm sure they'll have some web info about that. I'd strongly recommend that you switch to an IMAP-based provider, and consider the very likely possibility that Yahoo doesn't have that much of a future left, so you are going to need to change email addresses at some point in the future anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1328893"] Bottom line is that POP mail service, which is what Yahoo and most ISPs still offer, is antiquated in the age of multiple personal mail-capable devices. When you told the PC to auto-delete the emails from the server, your Mac (which is set up to mirror the server's state) did the same at the next sync. This is the problem with POP -- it's intended for ONE receiving machine, not multiple. Yahoo offers IMAP mail, but I believe they charge for it. I'm sure they'll have some web info about that. I'd strongly recommend that you switch to an IMAP-based provider, and consider the very likely possibility that Yahoo doesn't have that much of a future left, so you are going to need to change email addresses at some point in the future anyway. [/QUOTE]
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