deleted email! in os x mail

In article <ed4751d1.0412022347.3195e207.TakeThisOut@posting.google.com>,
dancing2myowndrum.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com (RichTheLimey) wrote:

 > deleted email 12/3/04!
 >
 > a friend of mine had deleted email from his .mac mail on the web (appx
 > 1 a.m. on 12/3/04) because mail was bouncing in his .mac account. so
 > he freed up some space naturally.
 >
 > but when he checked the local versions of the SAME emails on his Mac
 > mail client all his NEWLY DELETED email messages were gone.
 >
 > mail deleted on the wed .mac mail should not affect the mail locally
 > on his mac. but it did.

Yes, it should. That's the way .Mac email works; any changes you make
in one place are reflected in the other. If you don't want a message to
be deleted, don't delete it. Or at least save a copy somewhere first.

This is because .Mac uses IMAP, which is a pretty common scheme these
days.

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