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[SpamCop-Mail] Re: New messages in InBox are being auto-marked as deleted

JT jefft at spamcop.net
Fri Jan 23 10:01:17 EST 2004


Stephen Summerfield wrote:

>>I suspect that something else is downloading those messages. Maybe you
>>left the computer at home on and it's POPping the messages regularly.
> 
> 
> That was my first thought - but the PC at home isn't/wasn't set to down
> messages automatically and no one else was checking my mail (AFAIK).
> 
> The behaviour of webmail seemed strange as when checking for mail some new
> messages would appear in the inbox as already deleted (strike-out and
> dustbin icon). Normally if I delete a message it disappears from the InBox
> straight away. If something/someone else was deleting my messages why were
> they appearing in the InBox at all?
> I'm wondering under what circumstances messages in the InBox appear as
> deleted. I normally use POP, but does IMAP allow messages to be marked as
> deleted but not actually deleted?
> 

Yes, they can be deleted but not actually gone. Do you have any filters 
set up in webmail? Maybe one of them was deleting the mail.

> In the end I got around the problem by undeleting the deleted messages.
> 

How did you undelete them? We don't have an undelete button.

JT



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