deleting message multiple accounts

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joeyt17

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Hey guys,

hopeufully you can help me out with a problem. I just talked my parents into getting a mini, and so far they love it compared to pc. the problem occurs with mail. i set them up two seperate accounts on mail. if they both receive the same message from a sender, and one reads the message and deletes it...it is automatically deleted from the others account as well.

is there any way possible to stop this from happening? it sounds like mail is only saving one copy of the message on the computer, so when one deletes it, it's lost form the others account. also if one reads it, it shows the other has read ti as well

any ideas, help?

thanks in advance,
joey
 
Yes, this is exactly what is supposed to happen. I'm assuming that they're sharing the same email account (someone@somewhere.com), and using one email account across two different user accounts is slightly counter-intuitive.

When an email message is deleted from an account, it's gone from the account -- so when the other user logs in and syncs that account, well, the message is gone.

Is this how your setup is? Two user accounts on the machine, each one's Mail.app set up for the same email address and server?
 
they have two accounts, each are with different addresses.

someone1@xxx.com
someone2@xxx.com

if a friend sends a message to both someone1 and someone2. and only one of them views/deletes it, it will be deleted from both accounts.

so i don't see why this is occuring since they each have seperate accounts and should be receiving a seperate copy of the message. so when one views/deletes the message, it shouldn't affect the other at all....but it does
 
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