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English - Android => General Discussion => Topic started by: Andy_A on January 30, 2015, 01:11:48 am
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We use Thunderbird email clients at the office. I have (2) accounts (Gmail and my company). Both are set for POP3. In AquaMail I have both set up for IMAP. If my Thunderbird email client is open and receives an email, automatically the notification on AquaMail is removed. Can I set up AquaMail to indicate even if Thunderbird receives the email.
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Only if you set up your emailaccounts in Thunderbird as IMAP.
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Yep. Just how POP3 interacts with IMAP -- it marks messages read and then...
Option one (the better one):
Use IMAP everywhere.
Option two (the less better one):
Use POP3 in Aqua as well, so it'll have its own idea about each message's read/unread state.
Don't forget that Gmail's POP3 server is "very special" and so you'll need to use "recent mode" in all apps:
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/47948?hl=en
In addition, in Aqua, you'll need to
1) enable "remove deleted messages" under the account's options and folders -> account options and
2) increase "messages to sync" on that same settings screen from 25 to something like 100 or larger (because Gmail's POP3 server can reuse message identifiers, it seems).
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Thank you for the response.
I assume if you set up the account as POP3 then IMAP push is not an option.
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IMAP push (IMAP IDLE as it's called in the IMAP spec) -- is part (extension) of the IMAP protocol.
POP3 is an entirely different, unrelated, mail protocol.
So -- correct, if you use POP3, you will be using POP3, and not IMAP.
POP3: no push, no folders, no back-sync of read/unread/starred/answered/forwarded flags.
IMAP: push, folders, back-sync of read/unread/starred/answered/forwarded flags.