How can I synchronize outgoing emails?
Hello everyone,
I'm self-employed and a client gave me a dedicated email address for my project. I successfully logged in with this email on all my devices (iPad, PC, Mac, Android smartphone). I don't know much about it, but it seems I'm using a POP3 server for incoming mail and an SMTP server for outgoing mail (the client's setup instructions suggested this).
Sending and receiving emails works perfectly, but unfortunately, sent messages are only displayed on the respective device and only in the respective app. Furthermore, read messages aren't marked as read on all devices once I've read them on one device.
The client has never encountered this problem before, so unfortunately he cannot help me.
Does anyone know how I can at least synchronize the outgoing messages? Or have an idea how I could solve this?
Thank you in advance.
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This is a property of POP3. The mails are stored locally on each device, so that no direct synchronization can take place.
If you use IMAP instead, the mails will remain on the server and the devices will be synchronized automatically.
Thank you.
Can I just switch to IMAP or is this now specified by the client’s settings?
SMTP is also subject to POP3 or there are SMTP servers on which my mails can be stored and synchronized.
On the server from which you pick up your mail, an IMAP capable mail server would also have to run, otherwise this is not possible.
The alternative is to use a resender: a program that collects your mail from the POP-3 server and sends it to another one of your email accounts where you can access your email via IMAP.
For sent mails, you can send a copy to your address, otherwise neither POP-3 nor IMAP knows, but only the sending mail client and the SMTP server commissioned with the sending.
Many mail clients allow to automatically send copy to fixed address.
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