stop email from deletion when deleted on another device

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You can't that's the whole idea of iCloud (IMAP) mail. Only POP accounts do that.

Hi

When my wife deletes e mails on her ipad they all disappear on my imac! Can we alter the settings?

Thanks for any help.

PS we both work from the same e mail address.

With IMAP - the email protocol the iCloud uses - the messages live on the server and are read from there by your devices. Think of it as being like webmail and it makes sense. Therefore when your wife deletes a message she is actually deleting it from the server, which is why you see it as deleted. You can't alter this; it's inherent in the system.

The only workaround is to sort out a method whereby emails don't get deleted until both of you have seen them - for example she could move them to another folder and you could then read them there and delete them (so their presence in that folder always means that the other person has seen them).

thanks Roger that makes sense, however have to say I'm not a fan of iCloud it's like big brother!