The main difference between them was that Yahoo! SpamGuard is effective on the POP3 server. When I migrated to 'SBC Yahoo! DSL Service', the only thing that changed was the incoming and outgoing mail servers. Why would changing to '' change anything else about the account? They only threatened me with intrusive unneeded features. Or something like that.Īm I missing anything other than avoiding confusing my contacts and making unneeded work? No one ever threatened to disconnect me. On the one client, where you changed to the new settings, perhaps that client created a new POP tracker file, where the other client did not? MSOE, perhaps, tracks read email a little different than, say Mozilla Thunderbird, so MSOE would see the changed ports as a new account, and create a new account tracker. All my clients already HAVE all that mail, I am AFRAID to change the settings and then BOOM, have 2000 messages appear in my inbox as NEW. Or, not really interested in DL'ing one of my sbcyahoo accounts, which basically has 100MB of legacy email on it. I don't mind switching servers, I just ming changing the whole interaction with the email, client and server. Now, I didn't change ANY other settings, such as delete from server AFTER DOWNLOAD, or mark as read, or remove from server after X days, etc. THEN, when I went to ANOTHER client, it didn't show the email as to be downloaded, so I ONLY had it on the ONE client that had downloaded it. Now, the mail MAY have still be on server (of course it was) but the client rationalization already KNEW that it had been downloaded, but BOOM it just downloaded EVERYTHING on the server again.īig filter, sort, delete activity needed. My experience when I first tried the new settings about four months ago, was that when I set things up on a laptop client, chaning the POP3 server addresses, I got a whole SLEW of old mail, even though ALL this mail had been downloaded from that server to THAT client already once. I can download to one client (with settings like delete from server when deleted at client for example) and then later download to ANOTHER client, or still get mail on a PDA even when I have stuff being automatically downloaded at home on a desktop that is still running. Normally, my pop3 mails from yahoo, didn't, don't act that way. But, if I download to a desktop client, I don't get it on my laptop. Therefore, I use the on my PDA for example, just to get all mail.

If you download mail to ONE client, like a pda, when another client, like a laptop goes to check that mail, there is nothing NEW to show, since gmail has been updated to show that the mail is no longer NEW.

So, the biggest issue I had, was similar to the 'problem' with gmail.

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