prevent email deletion

[johnconstable]

I have an android phone and two laptops configured with email on IMAP.

I want to delete the emails from my phone to save memory space but if i do that the emails delete from outlook on my laptops.

Is there a way of deleting them from the phone but leaving them on my laptops (or at least one of them).

Changing the phone to pop3 is not an option because it creates a peculiar fault whereby whenever email is downloaded to the phone, even if it's unread, causes all emails in outlook to show as read, even when they aren't.

I also have to use imap because vodafone won't support outlook/pop3 and theres is a mojor problem with pops that cuased vodafone to keep redownloding previously downloaded messages multiple times.

help!

[johnconstable]

Thanks for looking into it.

Really annoyed with vodafone - was quite happy with pop3.

Just out of curiosity, do you know if the archive folder in outlook would sync?

[hrym]

I used IMAP briefly once, but didn't get the constant reload issue you had - that was with Gmail.   The issue is most likely to be with the service provider or the app rather than Vodafone, which is merely a data carrier - I assume this isn't a Vodafone email service is it?

It might be worth considering transferring to Gmail.   You can set it up to pick up messages from other services and set as-from any address you like.   You can then use the dedicated app on your phone, which manages messages very well, and POP3 on your laptops.   The only thing to be aware of (which I quite like, actually) is that it doesn't synchronise deletions from Outlook, so you have to delete from Gmail as well.

If you don't want to do that, have a look at 3rd party mail client apps.   There may be one with more flexibility than the stock one.

[johnconstable]

Sorry - I should have said the problem is with talktalk. Not everyone had it but it affected people with a certain combination of factors which included pop3 and outlook. Everytime outlook did a send/receive talktalk sent copies of everything on the server even if it had been downloaded. They were arriving faster than I could delete them (couldn't delete them as a block because new ones were mixed in) and they choked my outlook to a standstill for over 6 months.

[hrym]

Ah.   That's definitely not supposed to happen, though I've seen it when I've deleted the account and re-added it to a client app on a phone.   It was one reason why I moved to Gmail and its app.