How can I mark e-mails as read on my smartphone without these being marked as read when synced into my computer?
Before, I used to have the default Mac e-mail client for e-mails in my computer. I could read messages on my iPhone and just leave them as read since I knew that when scyned onto my computer, these e-mails would still arrive as unread so I wouldn't miss reading any of them.
Now that I have Thunderbird this doesn't work in the same way. Now, when I mark an e-mail as read on my iPhone it is automatically sycned with the server, thus generating two main problems for me: (1) new e-mails arrive as read onto Thunderbird in my computer; (2) old e-mails marked as unread on my computer are also marked as unread on my iPhone.
So to summarize, I guess the write question here would be: is there a way in which actions taken on already synced e-mails (once they have already been synced onto my iPhone or computer) are not carried on to the server and therefore not replicated on all platforms in which this e-mail account is set up?
I appreciate everyone's help and time in advanced.
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It appears to me to be working perfectly. Once you have read a message, it is shown as read, regardless of how, where or when you read it. Totally logical.
I suspect that in the past you have used POP where this wouldn't happen and you'd be obliged to repeat the same actions over and over again on each of your devices. Chacun à son goût.
Under Account Settings|Server Settings in Thunderbird, what is the "server type"?
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It appears to me to be working perfectly. Once you have read a message, it is shown as read, regardless of how, where or when you read it. Totally logical.
I suspect that in the past you have used POP where this wouldn't happen and you'd be obliged to repeat the same actions over and over again on each of your devices. Chacun à son goût.
Under Account Settings|Server Settings in Thunderbird, what is the "server type"?
Because my website provider is my source of email I have a POP setting. On my tablet I go straight to their webmail which at least eliminates some email I don't have to see if I _later_ go to Thunderbird. But if I read something, yes, I must " repeat the same actions over and over again on each of your devices. "
With all that Mozilla is doing to get people to Sync their platform, I'm waiting -- and have been for years! -- for Thunderbird to be able to Sync. Yes, I use Firefox as my preferred browser on each device, but won't do a Sync until it can include Thunderbird. I'm positive I'm not the only one wanting this true solution. I don't know how to get this to the developers, but would gladly send the request if there was a real Contact for Mozilla.
Mozilla does not develop Thunderbird anymore but you can contact them if you like. Thunderbird is developed by a volunteer group now.
A Google search gives Mozilla addresses. Do you have a Contact means?
No. You did understand they have nothing to do with Thunderbird anymore?
Sorry to repeat myself, but do a Google search. Every official address includes Mozilla.org as part of it. If you go to those Mozilla web addresses, you can prowl Support all you like, but have no way to contact the volunteer group you mention. If they have split off the search should produce different results. I can find nothing about Thunderbird having nothing to do with Mozilla.
Whatever. Google Mozilla dumping Thunderbird.
If you had the start page set to show when you opened Thunderbird you would be greeted with this page. Read it and educate yourself. https://live.mozillamessaging.com/thunderbird/start?locale=en-US&version=45.6.0&os=WINNT&buildid=20161222195647
I don't understand what webmail has to do with your choice of POP vs IMAP, unless in a roundabout way you are telling us that your email provider offers POP and not IMAP.
Use IMAP and you will have synchronisation of your email. With a little bit of extra effort you can also synchronize your address books and calendars. All of this is done by connection to online services "in the cloud".
Since calendars and address books are distinct and separate from email, and are supported by a broad variety of protocols, I think you will have to wait forever for an email client that synchronizes them all "out of the box". And what about other platforms? How would you synchronize Thunderbird with Android or iOS apps?
Synchronizing Firefox is relatively trivial. A few bookmarks, a few addons, adding up to maybe a few megabytes of data. Whereas in Thunderbird, most of us have many gigabytes of data, which is non-trivial to transport from one device or installation to another.