I'll add to Christopher's excellent comments. Many options exist for configuring your email setup to meet your needs. I use POP on my personal computer with Outlook since I got familiar with that through work and have been using POP for years. I have my Gmail account configured to move messages out of the Inbox and save them in its All Mail archive folder when they are downloaded to Outlook on my personal computer. my iPhone 5 email is configured with IMAP so I can always review anything by going to the All Mail folder with it or I can go to the Inbox to check out new messages that have come in since shutting down Outlook on my personal computer. Gmail offers in excess of 7GB for your account so having access to my entire email population is not an issue.
As I said, options are available so you should be able to set up your email accounts so they do just what you need. Alan Lemly -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 11:38 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: email and other question How did your phone pick up your email settings from your PC? If you're using POP, you probably don't want to use the same settings on both your phone and your PC. In general, POP will download the emails to your device and then erase them from your server, meaning you can't access your email from multiple devices. You can change these settings a bit. Here's how I had things set up when I was using POP on multiple devices. On my PC, I configured it to download my messages and remove them from the server. Therefore, whenever I checked my mail on my PC, I could take care of all of it, but I wouldn't be able to access any messages I downloaded to my PC from any other device. The PC was where I stored all of my email for future reference. On my other devices, I configured POP to download my messages to the device but leave them on my server. I further configured it to delete any messages from the server that I moved to a folder or deleted from my device. This way I could check my email on one of my devices, delete the messages I didn't have to archive or deal with later, and leave the rest on the server until I could get to my PC. It may be the case that your email is sluggish when you bring it up because all of those messages need to be downloaded. The reason you see the same messages on both your PC and your iPhone could be that you're leaving your messages on the server, and deleting them from your phone or your PC isn't deleting them from the server, so they're redownloaded every time you check your email. Note I did this until I switched to Gmail and IMAP. If you'll be dealing with your email from multiple devices, and you don't have a compelling reason to stick with POP, you might want to make the leap to IMAP. Note that there are some advantages to POP over IMAP, but they probably aren't worth it if you're going to be accessing your email from multiple devices. On 11/28/2013 04:19 PM, Tessa wrote: > Thanks both of you. > yes the screen off issue is a very small problem. > The email is a little more signifficant because I have almost 3000 messages > and often when I open my mail and it checks for new mail I have to wait > minutes before I can actually get the screen to do anything. I touch it and > it doesn't respond until some time later when i get repeated clicks. Once > the clicks have been gone through than I can access the screen, but > sometimes it takes a while. > Well my ISP recently suggested due to it upgrading that we all switch to > imap? but I haven't and am still using pop3 and I assume since my phone > picked up my email settings from my pc that it is also using pop3. > Anyway, thanks again. > Tessa > -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail and still have it waiting for me on the server when I checked -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
