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How can Email bypass server but get to laptop and smartphone?

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eyec

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Aug 20, 2004
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ok, this is strange. i have my laptop & smartphone download my emails but not remove them from the server. only my desktop removes email from the server.

tonight however, i got a phishing email on my laptop & smartphone but when i went to the webmail server that email was not there & when i downloaded my emails to my desktop that email did not show up there either.

sorry if this sound confusing but, i am totaly confused as to how this could happen.

any ideas.
 
Only one email account - correct? You verified the "keep on server" setting on both devices right after you realized the email did NOT come to the desktop - correct?

If both are affirmative, it doesn't make sense. I don't think that any spam filters can remove mail AFTER it gets into your mailbox.
 
You don't have a local spam filter on your desktop email client (spam folder). That might explain it.
 
server did not show the email in the bulk/spam folder, keep on server set for both laptop and smartphone. desktop did not show it in the junk/spam folder either. i have never seen this happen & cannot figure it out.
 
We need a better mind than mine at this point. The spam wizards are getting so clever that their emails arrive via osmosis into your inbox.
 
Thanks for your thoughts. I am going to have to watch for this again. It mirrored an email from LinkedIn, but viewing the source code, it came from a Germany ip address and the bogus link went to a Germany .com.
 
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