Originally Posted by jhoff80:
No, I understand entirely, you're misunderstanding. POP pulls mail from the server and stores it in two separate pools. IMAP syncs with the server each time. With IMAP, if you delete it somewhere, it's deleted everywhere.
I understand what you are saying... But we're talking about two different issues here. In my experience, whenever anyone else says "it leaves mail on the server", like hparsons said, I always take that to mean that if you delete it from one device/computer, you can still get it on another one.