"Todd Allcock" <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in message
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> At 01 Apr 2008 19:55:43 -0700 Robert A. Fink, M. D. wrote:
>
>> When I read a piece of POP3 mail, I either save it to a folder or
>> delete it from the server. Therefore, it is deleted and will not show
>> up on the phone if I have read it on the computer, or vice versa.
>>
>> Correct?
>
>
> This explains it better than I ever could:
> http://www.imap.org/imap.vs.pop.brief.html, but essentially each device
> keeps track of what POP mail it's downloaded but no device knows what the
> others have done.
>
> (Having said that, however, some "POP" services, like GMail or AOL, don't
> follow the POP protocol and therefore don't play by the rules- they just
> act like POP services to allow access by POP e-mail clients.)
>
>

If you have outlook checking your pop mail and have the setting to leave it
on the server it wont get deleted. Have it checked with it to remove it from
the server and it will. That's why I said it depends on how it's setup in
software and which one checks it 1st.