Gmail - automatically mark as read (in the past) How about AquaMail?

[amw65]

A little longer than a year ago I used gmail.com as provider and another Android Mail app on my tablet.
It happens that when I was away and used to tablet for mailcheck, once I got home and wished to retrieve the mail into Outlook (pc)
nothing was retrieved.
Gmail set mail to be 'read'.
I had to send the mail from my tablet to myself and then retrieve the mail again in order to get it into Outlook.

I then decided to leave gmail and step over to Outlook.com

Everything fine since then.
So I have AquaMail set to outlook.com
At home Outlook 2016 is set to pop3 (I don't want to use IMAP, definitely not. Reasons? Long story)

As said, that was over a year ago. I checked and sent a few mails to myself from another mail account.
1 - I left unread
1 - I read - status read
1 - I read but I changed the read status back to unread

All 3 mails arrive into Outlook 2016 (configured to outlook.com)
Normally they wouldn't arrive into Outlook.

I wonder - has anything changed??

Or does AquaMail take care of this issue by not setting a kind of 'read'-mark to the mail..??

Thanks.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Aqua "ends at" marking a message as "read" on the server (IMAP) or not (POP3 doesn't have this capability).

The rest -- fetching mail with Outlook -- is between the mail service and Outlook app.

1 - For Gmail, if you also used POP3 in Aqua or "that other app" - would only return each message to a mail app (any mail app) just once. So with multiple apps, only one mail app will "see" any given message.

There is a workaround: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7104828

2 - Aqua's default for Gmail is IMAP not POP3 so the above _should not_ apply to Aqua. But could to your "other" app.

3 - For Outlook.com, I'm not aware of any such "special server side logic".

There is another downside to mixing IMAP and POP3:

Most mail services will mark as read on the server - any message retrieved over POP3.

And then that "read" status will sync over IMAP, but those same messages will remain unread in the POP3 app - since POP3 doesn't have the capability to sync read/unread with the mail server, so each mail app tracks this on its own, independently of the mail server and other mail apps.