Hi Ronni,
on 16/10/15 12:11, Ronni Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: > Hi Peter, Neil and Michael, > > Starting in iOS 6 the iOS email setup became smarter, and tries to figure out > whether your ISP supports IMAP, and if it does, creates an IMAP account on the > iPhone. OK, so this explains the new problem previous POP accounts se-up prior to iOS 6 - but because Internode supports IMAP iOS 7 unilaterally decides that I need an IMAP set-up! > > > If your ISP does not support IMAP it creates a POP3 account. > There are 2 problems with this added intelligence: > 1. Sometimes it makes a mistake, and creates a POP account even if the ISP > supports IMAP. > 2. Sometimes even if your ISP supports IMAP you might prefer a POP account. (I > don¹t know why people would but) Because our personal domains are only used for email, we went cheap and only have 20MB of disk storage... I know I should get around to upgrading the package and paying for more but, really, it has been working fine for us for years so it¹s not a high priority. I save a LOT of emails (my Entourage database is currently 4GB!) - again I really need a cleanout but there is always some other priority ;o) I also don¹t want to think about the implications of IMAP accounts on my personal domain servers and the back-up/recovery systems needed - I really want all my saved emails all in one place on my main computer (with comprehensive backups) and my current system works well (for me!) > > > > I¹ve had this happen where the iPhone would auto select POP even though the > server supported IMAP. > One way you can force the setup to give you a choice of POP or IMAP. > Is to type in a fake email address dpj...@dpe.sp when setting it up, iOS will > then try to auto-discover the account settings when it can¹t it will ask you > to fill in the server details and you can select POP or IMAP. OK, I may try this at some stage but it currently seems to work OK so it may have to wait ;o) > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) > 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz > 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM > 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage > > El Capitan OS X 10.11 > > Ronni, thanks very much for your explanations and suggestions clear and concise as always. I now know exactly why I could set-up the POP accounts before but not now. I also have a suggested fix if I decide I need to change to POP on the phone. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com
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