Gmail accessing my POP but not deleting

[Danial Pearce]

I have just setup gmail to download email from my POP3 server, which is working correctly.

I made special care to NOT tick the box that says "Leave a copy of the retrieved message on the server."

However, I am noticing that gmail does not delete the messages, they remain on the POP server.  Is this a bug in gmail? It would seem pretty self explanatory to me, there is only the 1 setting for gmail to delete the emails after fetching, unless I am missing something?

[Zack (Doc)]

From the help center page: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/13287?hl=en

"Your POP settings in Gmail settings are what determines whether or not messages stay on the server, so this setting in your client won't affect how Gmail handles your mail."

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[Andy]

I think you are talking about different things.

Danial talks about using Gmail to retrieve messages from a POP3 server.

Zack's reply is about using a CLIENT to download messages from Gmail (as the server).  Doesn't apply to Danial's question.

Danial, my guess is that the POP3 server is ignoring Gmail's request to delete the messages.  Maybe there is a setting in that account too.

Andy

[Marko Vukovic]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Andy <AI.e...@gmail.com> wrote:

Danial, my guess is that the POP3 server is ignoring Gmail's request to delete the messages.  Maybe there is a setting in that account too.

With a little bit of Telnet prowess Danial could try log in to his POP3 server by hand, delete messages, login to that account and then see if they are actually being deleted.

http://www.stavros.io/tutorials/email/

Don't forget the QUIT command at the end otherwise nothing will happen.

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Marko