I have a Motorola Droid M with an email problem that is really annoying. I delete my Yahoo emails from my PC but they still show up on my phone until I get in there and delete all of them again. What is wrong with the way this is set up please?
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I had the same problem. Go to the Play Store on your phone and download Yahoo Mail. It syncs everything so now when I delete from either the phone or the computer, it deletes from the other automatically. It was someone working at a local Verizon store who told me to do this. Incidentally, someone at a different store told me that it wasn't possible. Go figure. I guess some employees are better trained than others.
Just an idea - do you have the Settings on your PC set to "Delete From Server" when they're delivered to your PC ??? Or are you suggesting that your using YAHOO online? (e.g., not Outlook or some other email software).
Not sure how my PC is set but Yahoo mail worked fine with my LG Vortex which I replaced with this Droid a month ago. Gmail does not have this issue. When I delete a Gmail on my PC, it comes off the phone as well. Now, I look on my phone and it's showing 201 emails in the Yahoo inbox!!! They all came back dating back to Dec 24th. My PC only shows 5 emails in it's inbox which is correct. Pretty cool phone except for this.
Well, your phone has it's own local storage (now?) ... So when your phone "syncs" up or downloads your email at any given moment, it's on the Phone's storage ... So even if you read it & delete it on your PC has no effect on the phone. Not sure how it worked with the Vortex ... maybe it was an "always online" email app & the msgs weren't stored on the phone ??
I don't understand what's going on at all. I delete the emails on both the PC AND the phone several times a day. These 201 emails that just showed up in my inbox had already been deleted over the last two weeks and magically reappeared this evening. It is going to be a real chore going back through and deleting these again w/o deleting the ones that I've been saving...
Very strange ... well, as a last resort you may want to remove the Yahoo account altogether, delete the APP, and reinstall and reconfigure it ?? sorry ...
Tried that this afternoon. No change. New Yahoo emails show up in both places but need to be deleted separately unlike my other email accounts. Also strange is that there are 5 older emails on my PC that I am saving for future reference that do not show up on my phone(?)
Thanks for the ideas. Wish I could figure this out.
If you've been setting up your Yahoo account as a POP account, what happens when you set it up as an IMAP account?
I had the same problem. Go to the Play Store on your phone and download Yahoo Mail. It syncs everything so now when I delete from either the phone or the computer, it deletes from the other automatically. It was someone working at a local Verizon store who told me to do this. Incidentally, someone at a different store told me that it wasn't possible. Go figure. I guess some employees are better trained than others.
Thank you!!! That fixed it. Much better! The emails are now synched.
Great! Glad it worked.
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