Subject Re: mv_mail.cc : Marc V. From Marc VdB <dbase@dbase.de> Date Thu, 27 May 2021 21:54:32 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Hi Tim, indeed, you can do that with Thunderbird, but only because Thunderbird is nice :-) POP3 is a MUCH simpler protocol than IMAP and it has its intrinsic limits if it comes to synchronisation.You will need a "nice" mailclient to do the sync apprpriatly... KR, Marc > On 27/05/2021 14:27, Marc VdB wrote: >> 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. > Hi Marc, > There is a setting on thunderbird that allows you to leave messages on > the server for a set number of days or until they are deleted. We're > using POP and this setting and can download the same messages from > different computers as long as we sync within 14 days (that we've set). > I use it to let someone else deal with emails for the nursery when I'm > on holiday, but all the messages are available for me to look at on my > computer when I return. > > regards Tim