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How to stop my email messages being marked as read when a POP client downloads them?
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Mar 15, 20265938 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I access my email in two ways from Thunderbird. I have one POP account and one IMAP. The problem is that this makes messages coming to through IMAP marked as read before I actually read them on any account. This is causing a severe problem as I may miss some emails. The email server is Exchange.
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POP is working as designed, here. If you access a mailbox via the Post Office Protocol, you are expected to be transferring it off the server to storage of your own. (RFCs 1081 and 1939 both make this point explicit in their introductions.) From the…
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