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Mail not deleted at Server

by philiom Dec 13, 2005 6:26AM PST

I'm new to Mac's and have a shiney new PowerBook G4 which I've just configured, including the setting up of my mail accounts via my ISP's server. Everything works fine...I can download new mail, send, reply and forward. However, when logging onto my old windows pc this evening and opening up Outlook, all the messages I had successfully downloaded and put into newly created mail boxes on my Mac downloaded again via my pc. Consequently, I have to presume that for some reason my Mac is receiving mail OK but not deleting it off my ISP's server. How can I deal with this? I can't download my mail twice every time, once on my mac and once on my pc ! I must be misunderstanding something.....any ideas please !!

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by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Dec 13, 2005 10:07AM PST

Go to the Mail preferences/accounts and highlight your POP3 account.
In the right hand pane, click the advanced tab.
Put a check mark in the remove copy from server after retrieving message.

Should work for you


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So simple when you know how !
by philiom Dec 13, 2005 6:55PM PST

mrmacfixit......Thank you. It obviously worked. How I missed that I don't know. How's Louisiana? As another ex-pat now living in the mountains of Spain my splendid isolation holds no fears, not now I've found this forum.
Thank you again.....I reckon my visits to the forum will be plentiful over the next week or two. The powerbook is a wonderful machine by the way....delighted with it. Nothing seems to go wrong with it, makes me suspicious.

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Glad it worked
by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Dec 13, 2005 8:40PM PST

I was up around Pamplona in the summer of '92, just camping and soaking up the scenery. Beautiful area.

Louisiana is fine and slowing moving into the 20th century! (Not a typo)

Any more problems with the Powerbook, just yell. How do you get on-line up there?

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