Appleinfo: Re: [apple-iphone] Limiting/prioritizing email on iPhone5

That is the common belief, but when I bought my first iPhone, it took forever to download a ton of POP email from the server. (Depending on your automated deletion settings.) I have also had a HD die on a Mac. I had not backed up the email. And it downloaded a ton of POP email also. I would not rely on saving critical email this way, but you can recover a lot.

Brent

On Jan 15, 2013, at 12:50 PM, Tony wrote:

That is the problem with POP. Its tied to your computer. If your computer failed, hard drive failed, was burnt, stolen, your email is gone. You can use other means to mitigate that, such as leaving mail on the server, seeing if the provider has IMAP settings, but both of these options are not foolproof.

POP clients are more featured, but the Yahoo webmail I use is perfectly functional, not gross like Hotmail or Gmail, and I can use email anywhere in the world on any online computer.

For the subject of this thread, my email is all there on my laptop as I type right now. (Its actually not on my laptop, its at Yahoo) If I use my iPhone or iPad, the interface is different due to small screens, but everything is on them too, in real time. Ideal I feel.

I can filter using webmail interface on laptop to alter settings, filtering, etc.

Not trying to sell webmail, but these days it is far superior in its model than POP. POP software will look better, and is more featured.

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Jim, how do you accomplish this? If my Mac is on, it will use my rules to place certain emails in folder On My Mac, and they disappear on my iPhone. No, I don't have same email folders on my iPhone.

If the Mac is not on and connected, they do not sort. Most of my email accounts are POP, not IMAP.

Brent

On Jan 14, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Jim Saklad wrote:

> The Apple mail reader is pretty basic - no filters and no sorting. I'm disappointed that they've not made a better product. But they've not, so it needs to be worked around.

Or not.

My mail on my Mac, on my iPhone and my iPad, and in my iCloud account is filtered into sub-folders, and sorted the way I choose.

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