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how can I synchronize Thunderbird with iPhone mail app?

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skessler
skessler

I have an e.mail account set up in both Thunderbird (on laptop) and my iPhone e.mail app as IMAP. When I receive a message, I can open it on one device, but not on the second device. I thought IMAP would enable either device to read the e.mail which would remain on the server.

I have an e.mail account set up in both Thunderbird (on laptop) and my iPhone e.mail app as IMAP. When I receive a message, I can open it on one device, but not on the second device. I thought IMAP would enable either device to read the e.mail which would remain on the server.

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Matt
Matt
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you have the right idea about IMAP, but I am guessing your Thunderbird is not configured as IMAP.

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skessler
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Application Basics 

   Name: Thunderbird
   Version: 52.2.1
   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1
   Profile Folder: Open Folder

             (Local drive)
   Application Build ID: 20170622064432
   Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
   Build Configuration: about:buildconfig
   Memory Use: about:memory
   Profiles: about:profiles

 Mail and News Accounts
   account1:
     INCOMING: account1, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext

   account3:
     INCOMING: account3, , (imap) secure.emailsrvr.com:993, SSL, passwordCleartext
     OUTGOING: , secure.emailsrvr.com:465, SSL, passwordCleartext, true

 Crash Reports
   https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-66560492-be02-4585-a562-521052160825 (8/25/2016)
   https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-399b6742-c9a0-49f6-95fb-ee4a92160221 (2/21/2016)
   https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-2a148665-ca7a-4da3-a1c1-fae872151229 (12/29/2015)
   https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-ab39a51c-4600-4167-856d-9face2151203 (12/2/2015)
   https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-69b41aae-ce61-42f3-9feb-947fc2150217 (2/16/2015)

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   Lightning, 5.4.2.1, true, {e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}
   Mail Redirect, 0.9.1, true, {CC3C233D-6668-41bc-AAEB-F3A1D1D594F5}

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