same account imap and pop3

[Andrew McGlashan]

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Hi,

On 2/3/19 3:39 pm, James via dovecot wrote:
> I have an imap and pop3 for the same account. When I delete a
> message from imap and then fetch the mail from the pop3 account, it
> retrieves the deleted message. I am using thunderbird for the MTA. 
> Does anyone know why it happens? It could be a timing issue.

Well... I used to have a setup, years ago, that would store incoming
messages to Maildir and also to mbox -- I had it setup so that POP3
worked as well as IMAP (independently).  This also allowed the POP to
just accumulate messages as a "backup" of sorts whilst I actively used
IMAP usually.  I could always POP down messages.

So, it depends for your setup; perhaps the two retrieval methods are
actually using separate email stores as well (like I had).

I gave up on the idea of using dual POP3 and IMAP long ago now.

Cheers
A.

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