My husband and I have 1 POP mail account. I am accessing it from a
computer in Virginia, where I'm staying with relatives. He is accessing
the same account from California. I have my Outlook set up to keep
messages on the server, but to delete them after 1 day (so that he will
still get the messages, but the server won't get clogged). His email
program, Eudora, is set up so the messages will be deleted from the
server after he downloads them.

Is there a chance I won't get some messages because he has his computer
set up that way? (He downloads it 1st, then it gets deleted off server
and I don't get it)

If he's downloading the messages after me, will my setting to keep the
messages on the server for 1 day prevail, or will the messages get
deleted after he downloads them because of the way his Eudora is set
up?

If he polls the account first then it will be removed from the server
irrespective of what your account setting is, if he polls the server after
you then the message will still get removed from server. In some cases he
may not be able to retrieve all the emails if he fails to access the server
in the one day time scale.
"Lily" wrote in message
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My husband and I have 1 POP mail account. I am accessing it from a
computer in Virginia, where I'm staying with relatives. He is accessing
the same account from California. I have my Outlook set up to keep
messages on the server, but to delete them after 1 day (so that he will
still get the messages, but the server won't get clogged). His email
program, Eudora, is set up so the messages will be deleted from the
server after he downloads them.

Is there a chance I won't get some messages because he has his computer
set up that way? (He downloads it 1st, then it gets deleted off server
and I don't get it)

If he's downloading the messages after me, will my setting to keep the
messages on the server for 1 day prevail, or will the messages get
deleted after he downloads them because of the way his Eudora is set
up?