Switching to thunderbird help

[Allan Rube]

My wife used Outlook 2011 for her mail but wanted to switch to Thunderbird. I did all the work for her but there is 1 problem I can't solve.
Her email is a gmail address set up as pop. When she deleted a message from her ipad it also got deleted from Outlooks inbox. That saved her the trouble of having to also delete it from her computer.
I can't figure out how to do this in TB. When she deletes a message from her ipad it still stays in the TB inbox.

Any ideas?

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hello.

Normally, email accounts should be setup as IMAP to enable automatic syncing between email clients and devices.

-Which model Mac?
-Which version of OS X?
-Which model iPad?
-Which version of iOS?
-Which version of Thunderbird?

C

 

[Allan Rube]

I set it up as pop because I did not want to sync my iphone and ipad with my two macs. When I check my mail on my phone I want it deleted from the phone and ipad but kept on my Mac. The only problem I had then was the mail went to whatever TB was open - either on my Mac Pro or my MBP but not both. That generally wasn't a problem as I delete over 95% of my mail, but there were some I wanted to keep on both.
Mac Pro 2013, MBP with touchpad 2016, High Sierra, iOS 11.2.2, TB 52.5.2.