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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Unlike IMAP, POP3 doesn't auto delete from the server, or at least that's what I've run across. I actually prefer that it not be deleted at the server, but you can set that flag when you set up the account in mail.
Mail seems to be the most frustrating thing about setting up new devices, at least it is for me.
I'm glad you like your new iPad Mini 5. It's certainly a big jump up from the iPad Mini 2!
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You are correct in that Mail won’t delete emails from my GoDaddy POP3 account. I have to periodically use the GoDaddy login to delete them via my GoDaddy account. A PITA. Mail does nothing more than download new emails from this account, and it doesn’t do that very well across my various devices. With the IMAP account I could delete email on one device and Mail would delete it across all the devices connected to that account, but POP3 accounts don’t have that ability. However, I’m a bit annoyed that emails which I manually delete from any device don’t seem to always get deleted, perhaps because they were backed up on iCloud before the deletion. Thankfully this only seems to be an annoyance when I try to set up a new device from the backup of a previous device. I’m guessing that any emails that were backed up somehow stay in the iCloud backup and during a recovery they get pushed back onto the device. Apple should flag deleted emails for deletion from subsequent backups, but apparently they don’t.
Yes the mini 5 is a major upgrade from the old mini 2! It is even a substantial upgrade from my Pro 9.7. It has 50% more internal RAM than the Pro 9.7, and a significantly faster processor too, not to mention twice as much storage memory. I’m very impressed with it considering its lower price point.