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Yeah, it happens to me to.  No idea what causes/solves it.  Heck, I can't even get an answer to the question I've posted in multiple forums about the default outgoing email account. 

I guess I'll have to go dig up my old "Magic 8-Ball."

If you are using .Mac you are using IMAP and the mail isn't deleted just because you access it.

As far as I know, that is the advantage to an IMAP server... you can access your email from anywhere even without your own machine.

You have to go into the account preferences for each email account you have and tell it when and if you want to delete the messages off the server.  I have mine set up so it deletes them off the server if they are over 1 week old.

-mark

Actually, I think it's intentional that Mail doesn't delete things from the server.  Notice that when you press 'delete' it doesn't just go away.  The 'deleted' message is just moved to a different IMAP box.  If I'm correct, Outlook defaults to receiving messages via POP, so these message boxes are all ignored, as are the new/read flags.

In short, this is neither a quirk or an error, it's just the way it's designed.

If you don't go through and forcefully delete the old messages from the "Trash" box, they are automatically removed in a week, I believe (you can set this in the preferences).

I think I can offer some insight. there's a preference for keeping mail on the server that can be adjusted from "right away" to "one day" "one Week" "one month."

I'm assuming that your Outlook app doesn't "know" that mail downloaded it.

Personally I appreciate this as I check me pop mail from both work and home, so I appreciate the messages being left on the server, even thought it does create a little momentary confusion when I try to remember if this is a "new" message or the one I read an hour ago at work...