Subject Re: mv_mail.cc : Marc V. From Marc VdB <dbase@dbase.de> Date Thu, 27 May 2021 15:27:29 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Hi Hi Gaetano, Hi Akshat, i should have been more verbose! What i meant is, that POP3 works correctly, only if you use a single mailclient on a single machine. With IMAP you can use different clients on different machines ( due of course to Gaetanos explanation below) Akshat (using POP3): you open Thunderbird at your home office and you get all the mails, that have been send to you or by you since you last opened Thunderbird Gaetano ( using IMAP) : you will see the same as Akshat. Now you both go to the office at work. Akshat, if you open Tunderbird, you will see the new mails, that arrived since you closed Thunderbird at your home office, but not those, that have been sent to the thunderbird-client at your home office. With POP3 they are no longer on the server. Gaetano: if you open thunderbird at your work office, it will show you the ones that have been already sent to you and the new ones, because with IMAP they stay on the server and thunderbird can sync with all mails not yet read. HTH, Marc > as far as I understand, IMAP leaves the message on the server, POP3 > deletes the message on the server once it is delivered. In both cases > you should get the message that was sent by mv_mail. >