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<blockquote data-quote="Ember1205" data-source="post: 1721294" data-attributes="member: 374272">I'll pile on here as well.If your mail accounts offer access via IMAP, change to that. Even with multiple devices accessing the mailboxes, the experience is significantly smoother and cleaner if you do this via IMAP instead of POP (sometimes referred to as POP3).I want to add some additional info, though, as ferrar's post isn't necessarily accurate as written. POP -allows- you to leave messages on the server but email programs always chose to REMOVE them from the server once downloaded. Newer systems may be opting to leave the messages on the server and rely on a local &quot;database&quot; in the mail program to understand which ones are old and which ones are new (to determine which ones to download). Regardless of which operating mode you're using, it's possible that something is corrupt in the email client and it's confused about what needs to be downloaded or not, deleted or not, marked read or not, etc. IMAP doesn't work this way as it's a more pure &quot;sync&quot; between mail client and mailbox, using the READ status stored on the message itself in the actual mailbox.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ember1205, post: 1721294, member: 374272"] I'll pile on here as well. If your mail accounts offer access via IMAP, change to that. Even with multiple devices accessing the mailboxes, the experience is significantly smoother and cleaner if you do this via IMAP instead of POP (sometimes referred to as POP3). I want to add some additional info, though, as ferrar's post isn't necessarily accurate as written. POP -allows- you to leave messages on the server but email programs always chose to REMOVE them from the server once downloaded. Newer systems may be opting to leave the messages on the server and rely on a local "database" in the mail program to understand which ones are old and which ones are new (to determine which ones to download). Regardless of which operating mode you're using, it's possible that something is corrupt in the email client and it's confused about what needs to be downloaded or not, deleted or not, marked read or not, etc. IMAP doesn't work this way as it's a more pure "sync" between mail client and mailbox, using the READ status stored on the message itself in the actual mailbox. [/QUOTE]

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