This isn't specifically android-related but I couldn't see where else to post it so here goes...................

Am I right in thinking that POP is best suited to situations where you access mail from one device as the mail server deletes the mail once it has been sent as opposed to IMAP for accessing mail across multiple devices ie laptop,tablet,phone?

A friend has a laptop and an android tablet and is complaining that mail (from her POP account) received on the tablet mysteriously disappears before it gets read, ie she receives the notifications in the android email app but if she goes to read them later, they have gone.

My assumption (which is probably totally wrong) is that the windows email client on the laptop is telling the mail server to delete the mail and because the mail has not been read on the tablet yet, it vanishes.

Am I close or in fantasy-land?