Hi Ronni Thankyou for that detailed response, I have studied it many times. I can see the difference tween POP & IMAP accounts and the advantages of each. I am pursuing my research further now.
cheers john Sent from my iPad On 09/07/2012, at 9:22 PM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi John, > > Technically speaking, iCloud does not sync any email from your computer or > other devices, per se. What iCloud does is provide you with a free @me.com > or @mac.com email account in much the same way that any other email provider > does. > > The point, however, is that iCloud doesn't "sync" your mail in the same way > as it does for contacts and calendars; your mail isn't "uploaded" from > Mail.app to the iCloud servers and then synced down to your devices. This > would largely be redundant as unlike your own contacts and calendar > appointments, which you create yourself, most of your email came "from the > cloud" in the first place, so Mail.app on your Mac and the iOS Mail > application simply fetch your mail and sync changes via IMAP in the same way > as they would with any IMAP-based email account. > > In fact, the only thing that iCloud provides that is different from any other > IMAP based email provider is that ability to get push notifications on iOS > devices for new e-mail messages; it otherwise works in much the same way as > any other IMAP account. > > If your email provider supports the IMAP protocol for accessing your email, > and you've set your devices up to use IMAP for that email account, changes > you make on one device (like deleting an email, or moving it to a folder) > will show up on all of your other devices. > > If you're using the POP protocol to access your email, that's not the case. > Changes made one one device will not show up on other devices. > How I get around this with the one email account I have that is a POP Account > (my Westnet mail account) I have it set to "Remove copy from server after > retrieving a message: After one day"... > Therefore I can access my POP email on all my devices during the day. > If I was going to be away for more than a day without all my devices (my MBP, > iPad & iPhone) I could change the setting to not delete mail from the server > for a week or whatever. > Of course you have to be careful with this setting if your ISP has a small > limit on how much email you can leave on the server. > > Cheers, > Ronni > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > On 09/07/2012, at 6:34 PM, Daniels John <john...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi Ronni >> >> Thanks for the info. Do you mean you can sync all your email addresses with >> iCloud or only the @me or .mac ones? >> >> Cheers >> >> John >> >> >> On 05/07/2012, at 9:01 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: >> >> Hi John, >> >> I have used iTools, .Mac, MobileMe and now iCloud. >> iCloud does everything it is designed to do and does it all very smoothly >> and reliably. >> There is no problem using iCloud, set it up correctly on all your devices >> and you won't have any problems. >> >> I have four active email accounts, Contacts & Calendar, Photos, syncing to >> all my devices... MacBook Pro, iPhone4S, iPad. >> >> iCloud <http://www.apple.com/au/icloud/> >> Setup iCloud on all your devices. <http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/> >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> Sent from Ronni's iPad >> >> On 05/07/2012, at 7:52 PM, John Daniels <jdani...@westnet.com.au> wrote: >> >>> Hi Muggers >>> >>> I recently signed up for iCloud with the @me.com address. I understand >>> iCloud will sync my email actions between my iPad and my desktop so that >>> emails deleted, sent etc will be actioned on both and I won't have to >>> delete emails twice. >>> >>> However I notice that only about 10% of WA muggers are using the @ me.com >>> address. >>> >>> Is there a problem with using iCloud that I haven't realised? >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> John >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
