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IMAP and deleting messages from the server

Anyone else trying to use IMAP in the default mail app and seeing that messages deleted locally are not removed from the server?

I found a lot of posts about this issue on older Android versions and devices, but nothing for the Bionic yet.

And unlike for POP accounts, there is not an option in the settings to turn this on. IMAP is all about keeping messages and folders in sync between multiple clients, so this is an annoying bug.

I have been using K-9 as a work around, but I'd rather not use two different mail programs, and don't like the look/feel of K9 as much either.

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codine

Ok since apparenty no one else has noticed or cares about this issue, does anyone know the best way to file a bug report, and if I should do that with Verizon or Motorolla?

Per Google this has been fixed for over a year, and at this point its specfic to the version of the mail app that is on the Bionic.

Thanks.

DCZim

My Bionic is doing just the opposite. It is deleting messages from the server when I don't want it to. Gotta be a toggle switch somewhere in the set up that allows a user to set a preference. Just haven't found it yet. My old phone during email account set up prompted me to choose deleting or keeping the items on the server.

codine

DCZim,

Are you using IMAP or POP? Also, are you using a popular public IMAP service like GMail, MSN, etc. that can be "auto configured" without having to manually enter the server name?

Per Google the IMAP bug (which has been fixed some time ago in the Android Mail app but not yet in Motorola's Blur mail app) is triggered by visiting the incoming server settings for the account.

IMAP's entire purpose it to keep everything in sync between multiple devices/clients. If you want to delete messages on your phone without deleting them from the server, you should use POP3 instead of IMAP and ensure you have the client configured to NOT remove messages from the server when deleted locally and to always "leave a copy of message on the server". This is a general concept of POP3, nothing specific to the Bionic, Blur, or Android.

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