Can Thunderbird be used in sync on mutiple computers at different locations?
I want to use thunderbird on 2 computers (Linux Mint and Windows 10). I copied (a backup of my profile folders from Windows to Linux and eveything seemed to be there. But on Linux TB downloaded a few Emails which I then didn't get anymore on Windows. Retrieving emails seems to be either or rather than and and. The intention is to receive the emails on both machines. What do I do wrong?
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Recommended settings for Gmail IMAP https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78892
The IMAP protocol allows messages to be marked for deletion, a sort of limbo state where a message is still present in the folder but slated to be deleted the next time the folder is expunged. With Gmail's default settings, when you mark a message as deleted, Gmail doesn't let it linger in that state -- it deletes (or auto-expunges) it from the folder right away.
It should still be in Trash and 'All Mail' though.
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Are you using IMAP throughout, in both systems?
POP is not a good match to your needs, as it generally deletes from the server immediately after downloading. You need a system that leaves the message on the server for the other client. Whilst POP can be set to leave a copy, it is something of a kludge.
Note that if you do delete using an IMAP connection, anything you delete on either machine will also be deleted from the other machine AND the server. If you do want to keep a copy on one machine but delete it from the server, move it to the Local Folders account.
I only recently went over to Thunderbird. Before, I used Outlook as a client on both machines with POP and that worked fine. Actually, I have little experience with IMAP. The warnings you give on deleting are exactly the reason why I always sticked to POP. Since I tend to read my emails also on phone and tablet I thought it best to maintain my gmail server as repository and use POP to download to my 2 computers.
In my account settings I ticked options to leave mail at the server (as I used to do in Outlook) and checking directly with Gmail (through the web interface) shows that the mails are still there but one TB installation doesn't dowload when the other TB has already done that.
Is it really necessary to go for IMAP?
I don't think outlook plays well with POP these days. Your tablets etc may have clients configured specifically to work using Microsoft's proprietary protocols.
Who are the providers for the troubled accounts?
As it turned out my tablets were already using IMAP. Since I only used them for reference and never deleted anything there this was OK. I decided to abandon POP, everything is now on IMAP. I still have a question on this: The option to "only mark this message as deleted" doesn't really work for me since after a few minutes the message is actually removed on all my IMAP clients. Any suggestions?
Solution choisie
Recommended settings for Gmail IMAP https://support.google.com/mail/answer/78892
The IMAP protocol allows messages to be marked for deletion, a sort of limbo state where a message is still present in the folder but slated to be deleted the next time the folder is expunged. With Gmail's default settings, when you mark a message as deleted, Gmail doesn't let it linger in that state -- it deletes (or auto-expunges) it from the folder right away.
It should still be in Trash and 'All Mail' though.