OSX Mail: Leave Messages on Server
Contributed by David Kirk 
Tagged: Apple Mac Typically after you download your email from your POP server to your computer, the messages are deleted from the server. By leaving your email on the server for a certain period of time, you can download your email to more than one computer easily.
If you have multiple computers from which you like to check your email, you may want to leave your messages on your server for a while. Typically when you download your email it removes the messages from the server. Then when you connect with another computer, you have no messages to pull. However, if you leave messages on the server, then you can download the email to any computer that you use.
Here is how to leave messages on the POP server in OSX:
1. Open Mail
2. Click Mail menu
3. Select Preferences
4. Select Accounts
5. Select Advanced
6. Check Remove copy from server after retrieving a message
7. Set time you want to leave messages on server
8. Close dialog box and save
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babytoy said on March 10, 2009
very nice thanks
Anonymous said on March 9, 2010
Hello! Do you know how to leave messages on the server UNSEEN? Mail.app downloading messages but also, marking them as “seen” on the server:(
Thanks!
migratore said on September 23, 2011
Dear David,
I have an iMac + MacBookAir – I do not receive all e-mails on both computers.
If you or anybody has any idea how to solve the problem, I would be grateful.
thanks!