POP email is downloaded as already read

Im using Outlook2003 with OCFO 9.0.4.2 to connect to my corporate oracle calendar server. I dont have the OCFO configured to use IMAP or SMTP, so what Ive done is add another pop account that uses pop3 and SMTP to download my corporate email. That email is delivered to the OCFO storage files.
Everything worked yesterday when I installed it, but now all my email is being downloaded as already read!
Please if anyone has any clue to how I can fix it I will be grateful!
Thanks,
Bo

Hi Bo,
Do you use other clients then Outlook to read you
mail? The web mail for instance?
Im not sure about the settings in 9.0.4, but in
10.1.x you have a setting in Enterprise Manager where
you can configure POP General Parameters.
Here you will find a parameter called POP3
Retrieval which can be set to ALL or UNREAD.
If you set this to ALL, the POP client will download
all messages to the POP client, even though you have
opened the mail in a different client, but if it is
set to UNREAD, only new/unread messages with be
downloaded to the POP client.
Does this solve your problem, or is the case that ALL
email messages you get are automatically marked as
read?
Regards,
AndréNo, this doesnt solve it. I did try it from another client though. What I did was download the mail with the OFCO connector installed, using pop3. Then all my messages came in as already read. Then I downloaded all my mail with thunderbird, and they all came in as unread.
Any other ideas?
Thanks!

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Pop3 email not downloading after being read by IMAP on another device

I have Thunderbird 24.6.0 running on windows 8.
I use a number of email accounts setup using pop3. They all access different accounts hosted on the same server.
I also access these accounts using IMAP on mobile devices to keep an eye on email while out of the office.
In the past few weeks I have noticed that emails I have read on IMAP have not been collected by the POP3 on Thunderbird.
Initially, this seemed to be with only one account, so I deleted that account from thunderbird, cleared all the .msf files, disabled all the plugins, deleted all emails left on the server (pop3 is set to leave them for 14 days) and then re-setup that account.
It then seemed to behave for a week.
Now, I am seeing that problem across a couple of accounts.
Firstly, I don't know if the problem is Thunderbird, the mail server, or the IMAP client that I am running on Android (Aqua-Mail) but if I read an email in Aqua-Mail, if i then look at webmail it is still set as UNSEEN on webmail, which surely means that Thunderbird should pick it up...
How would I start investigating.?

Is the email still in the Inbox in webmail?
Pop mail accounts access the Inbox only and download anything that has not been previously downloaded. So the email must still be in the webmail account Inbox for Pop mail account to see it.
However, please check settings.
Tools > Options > Advanced > General tab
or
menu icon > Options > Options > Advnaced > General tab
click on 'Confog Editor' button
it will tell you to be careful :)
In top search type: unread
look for lines:
mail.server.server1.downloadUnreadOnly; Value = false
mail.server.server1.keepUnreadOnly; Value = false
there may be other similar lines where the server number is different.
Is the Value: 'false' or 'true' ?
If it is 'true' double click on line to toggle to 'false'
close config editor - top right X
click on OK to save changes.
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OK. There are several ways in Mail to manually remove messages from the POP server, but there is only one setting that causes messages to be automatically removed from the server: Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server after retrieving a message.
If you set it to After one week, for example, Mail should remove from the server every message that was downloaded more than one week ago, regardless of what you've done with those messages after downloading them. It doesn't matter whether you've read them or not. It doesn't matter whether you've deleted them locally or not. Either a week has elapsed and the messages should be removed from the server, or it hasn't and they shouldn't.
The Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors > Erase deleted messages when setting does not cause anything to be deleted from the server, ever. It just causes messages that were moved to the Trash to be permanently erased locally from your disk.
Now, back to your problem, are all the messages that Mail is downloading again but it shouldn't older than the time you've specified in Remove copy from server after retrieving a message, or is Mail also downloading recent messages again?
If the former, it could be that you were playing with that setting some time ago, Mail got confused and lost track of some messages that should have been removed, now those messages are gradually expiring from the list that Mail uses to keep track of which messages have already been downloaded, and that's causing Mail to believe they are new, thus downloading them again. If that's the case, just click the Remove now button in Preferences > Accounts > Advanced to remove every message still on the server, or use the Account Info window to remove from the server any messages that shouldn't be there. Choose Get Info (⌘I) from the Action menu located below the mailboxes list in the main Mail window to open the Account Info window -- type "Account Info" in the search field of Mail Help for more information on this feature.
If the latter, i.e. if Mail is downloading again recent messages as well, it could be that there is a problem with the file that Mail uses to keep track of which messages have already been downloaded. Deleting that file would cause Mail to download everything still on the server as if new, but it may also fix the problem, so you may want to try this (use the Account Info window first to remove from the server any messages you don't want to be downloaded again):
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I have been able to recover a few hundred from my iPhone which also had access to the POP account but many years of emails are just not there.
I thought for sure I could delete the account and recreate it as I was making it an IMAP account but I'm having no luck getting most of my life for the past 4 years back. (And yes, I know, I should have backed up - but I hadn't in over a year.) Lazy I know so please don't rub it in.
I drove 100 miles to go to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store and that is how I learned to recover the ones on the phone but that was a painfully slow process of doing them pretty much one at a time because I'd select 50 or so and some would be able to be moved and some wouldn't - which was frustrating so I finally just went through and kept the ones that were most important.
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Thomas,
"Note that you were warned that this would happen and approved it. When you delete an e-mail account in Mail, you are shown a message like the following:"
You didn't read my problem - I said I deleted a POP email account. I always read the messages that pop up and in Mail when you delete a POP account - IT DOESN'T TELL YOU NUTHIN! It just deletes it - which *** for me. Fortunately, I had an iPhone and on that device I had about a 1000 messages that I could recover but on all my POP accounts I download them from the server onto my Mac so they were only on Mail (the really old ones that I wanted to keep.) I had to move them into another directory one by one basically because when I would move 50 some of them would move and some wouldn't and I never did figure out that problem. Basically the ones that would not move are the ones that were associated with my domain changes with GoDaddy, and there were a lot of those. Have no idea as to why only those were resistant to moving but I can get all that data from GoDaddy anyway.
This thread is now moot seeing as how I've recovered everything I can and am going to just move on - and back up more often. ;-)
Apple and Mail need to rewrite that program to include a WARNING MESSAGE when deleting an Account in Mail that says ALL YOUR MESSAGES ARE GOING TO DISAPPEAR NEVER TO RETURN IF YOU DELETE THIS ACCOUNT, SO YOU DANG WELL BETTER HAVE A BACK UP IF YOU WANT TO KEEP ANYTHING BEFORE PRESSING THAT MINUS SYMBOL! ;-)

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Thomas,
"Note that you were warned that this would happen and approved it. When you delete an e-mail account in Mail, you are shown a message like the following:"
You didn't read my problem - I said I deleted a POP email account. I always read the messages that pop up and in Mail when you delete a POP account - IT DOESN'T TELL YOU NUTHIN! It just deletes it - which *** for me. Fortunately, I had an iPhone and on that device I had about a 1000 messages that I could recover but on all my POP accounts I download them from the server onto my Mac so they were only on Mail (the really old ones that I wanted to keep.) I had to move them into another directory one by one basically because when I would move 50 some of them would move and some wouldn't and I never did figure out that problem. Basically the ones that would not move are the ones that were associated with my domain changes with GoDaddy, and there were a lot of those. Have no idea as to why only those were resistant to moving but I can get all that data from GoDaddy anyway.
This thread is now moot seeing as how I've recovered everything I can and am going to just move on - and back up more often. ;-)
Apple and Mail need to rewrite that program to include a WARNING MESSAGE when deleting an Account in Mail that says ALL YOUR MESSAGES ARE GOING TO DISAPPEAR NEVER TO RETURN IF YOU DELETE THIS ACCOUNT, SO YOU DANG WELL BETTER HAVE A BACK UP IF YOU WANT TO KEEP ANYTHING BEFORE PRESSING THAT MINUS SYMBOL! ;-)

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On my iPad 1, I will look at and erase email in my Verizon email account, but emails I have erased will often be re-downloaded again, sometimes almost immediately. It is very annoying. Sometimes it will re-download emails from days before. Does anyone else have this issue with a Verizon email account or any POP email account in Mail on the iPad? Is there some way to fix it?
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Thanks for the response. However, the problem isn't that I get the same emails on multiple devices, that's something I am used to with my Verizon email account. Rather, the problem is that I am getting the same emails on the same device, specifically my iPad and iPhone 4S, emails that I have already viewed and then deleted on that device.
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I have a weird problem where some email is downloaded into Mail and some mail is not.
If I log into our ISP's webmail system, there are a whole bunch of emails that are just sitting there. These emails have not ever been downloaded to Mail.
I've tried to create a duplicate account, but Mail doesn't allow the same username & password in more than one account, which is kind of frustrating - I get an error stating that these user details are already in use.
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Assuming the account is a POP type account, quit Mail first and using the Finder go to Home > Library > Mail > this POP account named folder (named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account) > MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2.
Delete the MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2 file and empty the Trash.
Launch Mail and a new MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded2 file will be created automatically by Mail within the account named folder.
If successful, any previously downloaded messages that remain on the server will be downloaded again along with any messages available on the server not yet downloaded by Mail.
The reason you cannot create two accounts in Mail with the same user name and incoming mail server is based on the account and associated mailbox filing structure within the Mail folder at Home > Library > Mail. When creating an account in Mail, an account named folder is created at the first level within the Mail folder named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account.
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