Q: Mail Handling Across Platforms
I routinely access mail from three machines, one iOS and two OS X. All software is kept up to date. I have .me, .icloud and .comcast accounts. I am open to any combination of POP, IMAC, whatever.
Ideally, each piece of mail would only need to be handled once. Ideally, if I read it on one machine, it would appear as "read" on all. Ideally, if I deleted it on an OS X machine, it would be deleted everywhere, BUT I would also like to be able to delete mail from my phone (to save memory, storage, and clutter), without it being deleted from the OS X machines.
Can you propose a solution that gets close to this ideal? I am open to any combination of POP, IMAC, whatever. I am open to changes in mail handling rules, archiving, auto-deletes, smart mailboxes, whatever.
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
Posted on Sep 7, 2016 12:35 PM
Ideally, each piece of mail would only need to be handled once. Ideally, if I read it on one machine, it would appear as "read" on all. Ideally, if I deleted it on an OS X machine, it would be deleted everywhere,
Changing your email accounts to IMAP does this automatically. Save your POP account emails to an On My Mac mailbox before changing.
, BUT I would also like to be able to delete mail from my phone (to save memory, storage, and clutter), without it being deleted from the OS X machines.
Not possible. It's an All or Nothing proposition, either the mailboxes sync, or they don't.
Posted on Sep 7, 2016 2:46 PM