Any email server guru's? got a weird one...

[RicardoC]

Here are the symptoms...

1) Send email to my email server
2) Access mail server Inbox with webmail - new mail is there
3) Do send receive on PPC to download headers with POP3
4) There is my new mail in PPC Inbox
5) Refesh on webmail, mail also still there
6) Delete email from PPC Inbox
7) Do send receive on PPC
8) No email in PPC Inbox, mail now in Deleted items
9) Refesh on webmail, mail is still there
A) Empty Trash on PPC, Inbox empty, Deleted items empty
B) Refesh on webmail, mail still there
C) Do send receive on PPC
D) PPC, Inbox empty, Deleted items empty
E) Refesh on webmail, MAIL GONE!!!

I expected:
D) Mail re-appears in PPC Inbox
E) Refesh on webmail, mail still there

Happens with both WM2003SE and WM5, I think its got something to do with the configuration of my mail server as this didnt used to happen (recently switched from Microsoft to Linux/Horde server).

If I change the mail protocol from POP3 to IMAP4 it works as I expected it would, so I guess the Linux/Horde mail server presumes the POP3 access coming from the trashed PPC should trigger a mail flush, where as IMAP4 is presumed to be a header access again. Guess there is some logic difference between MS mail server and Linux.

Any ideas/explanations greatly appreciated?

[AlanJC]

That's how it's supposed to work.

It sounds as though you had Exchange set to ignore deletes from mobile devices.

[RicardoC]

That's how it's supposed to work.

It sounds as though you had Exchange set to ignore deletes from mobile devices.

Thanks for that, if thats the case then I am surprised the email didnt disappear from my mailserver when I initially deleted it from my PPC Inbox. All through this I had "Leave copies of emails on the mail server" ticked in the mail account settings on PPC. The send/receive didnt clear the mail servers Inbox, neither did the Delete so I was surprised the Empty Trash Can did.

Solved it by switching to IMAP4 - but logic of all this appears odd to me.

Thanks, anyway.