I quite often read my emails from various mobile devices running IOS 8, Windows Mobile 8.1 and whatever the latest flavour of Android is.

This is normally done via IMAP and then I can normally delete if necessary but the kept emails will (eventually) get downloaded to the home computer via POP3.

 

A while back, my Outlook started acting up and I decided to install Thunderbird to replace it until such time that I did a complete re-install and upgrade. Now I'm having to be a little bit vague here as I can't be 100% sure if it's Thunderbird that isn't marking my emails as (already) read when I POP3 download them or if my Lumia 920 isn't marking them as read on the email server - prior to POP3 downloading. I do remember that Outlook would flag the already read emails (as read) thereby meaning I didn't have to trawl through them again though.

I think that IOS and Android also manage to do it correctly.

 

Has anyone any thoughts on this convoluted ramble? Is it a trait of the Lunia 920 or something to do with Thunderbird? How can it be solved?

The issue will be thunderbird.

The issue will be thunderbird.

 

Is it fixable?

Not sure.  Fell out of love with Thunderbird after it ate a load of my emails never to be seen again.  What's happening is thunderbird is ignoring the server status of each email.

 

I IMAP all my mail accounts and only pull/archive older stuff (over 2 years) instead of POP3 everything.

 

The thunderbird support forums are usually pretty good at getting you and answer.

POP3 when it downloads the messages will assume that none of them have been read.  You need to download using IMAP on your PC if you want the 'read' flag to be retained.

Could this be the new 'Moderator' uniform?  

 

Could this be the new 'Moderator' uniform?  

 

 

Is that a spare one as being as you're having a wardrobe clearout Chris?

 

POP3 when it downloads the messages will assume that none of them have been read.  You need to download using IMAP on your PC if you want the 'read' flag to be retained.

 

I presume you mean thunderbird in particular as Outlook was fine with it.

 

I will set it up to IMAP and test your suggestion though.

I presume you mean thunderbird in particular as Outlook was fine with it.

 

I will set it up to IMAP and test your suggestion though.

 

Actually I meant Outlook, as that is what happens in my current configuration.  Phone & 3 laptops all via IMAP, desktop (POP3, leaves messages on server for 2 weeks).  When the desktop downloads the messages they all come in as unread (and then show as read on all my IMAP devices).

 

http://www.msoutlook.info/question/815

 

POP3 is download only, so changes you make locally, will not be uploaded back to the server nor to any other computer or device. This also includes Sent Items and the Read/Unread status of your messages. If the message was already marked as read on the server, it will be downloaded as Unread in Outlook.

 

What you need is IMAP on your desktop if you want to retain the read/unread flag.

Edited 4 October, 201411 yr by mbames

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