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Can I tell T/bird to download my emails and delete them from my servers mailbox when it downloads??

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davejenn
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I'm an old Outlook user and it would delete collected emails from the servers mailbox. I now keep getting notifications from the server saying my mailbox is almost full. If I delete them from the servers box they disappear from my computer. Is there a way to empty server box but keep emails on my computer? Thanks in advance.

I'm an old Outlook user and it would delete collected emails from the servers mailbox. I now keep getting notifications from the server saying my mailbox is almost full. If I delete them from the servers box they disappear from my computer. Is there a way to empty server box but keep emails on my computer? Thanks in advance.

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Matt
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If you create your account in Thunderbird as POP, yes you can. If you create it as IMAP (the default) then no you can not.

Which is you account configured as?