Mail, why doesn't it just delete from everywhere when I delete from iphone?

Question

This is another issue I can't seem to resolve. As per my other post about iCal, I expected my iphone to offer a seamless environment. I even, somewhat begrudgingly, would pay the $120 a year to mobileme if it did everything I want... sadly what I think I want is what the blackberry does!
Anyway, to get more specific. I want to be able to only have to delete and email once (e.g. if I read it and delete it on the iphone I don't want it to still be existing on my mac) and I want my mac and iphone to effectively be two components of one integrated system. Is this possible with mobileme or anything else without having to set up a dedicated server using microsoft exchange?

Answer 1

If you are dealing with IMAP or Exchange (ones that use ActiveSync) they will delete everywhere as those protocols do sync all up.
If you are using POP, remember POP was not meant to be used from so many locations. It doesn't SYNC. It in a sense copies. There are advanced settings for your POP account though that you can say remove from server once moved out of inbox but note that won't happen until next poll.
Your complaint has to do with the type of protocol your mail account uses.
For me, I do most of my email that I care about having access to when not at work via gMail and gMail uses IMAP thus it does sync up. If I delete or move a message on the phone, it deletes/moves on the server, if I do it via the computer or mail client that I use to interact with gMail, it updates my phone. All nice and synced.
So sounds like to me you are just using a POP account the POP protocol is very limited.
Message was edited by: DaVBMan