Roy Urick wrote: > Since switching over to our new BO box, my iphone users have been > complaining that seemingly semi-random emails will not download from the > server. > > > > They will either see an obviously iphone generated message that says > “this message has not been downloaded from the server” (the header info > is shown, but that error is in the place of the body) > > > > Or they will see part of the message with a button to download the rest, > but often the button will indicate 0 bytes left to be downloaded. > (clicking the button doesn’t make it go away) > > > > This isn’t all messages either. The errors do seem to cluster around > specific senders, but overall the iphones work and pop messages > successfully 90% of the time. > > > > Anyone know of a REAL fix for this? Most Googling results lists the main > fix is changing from pop to imap, which isn’t a direction we would like > to go. > > > > For some background, our setup is a bit odd. Our iphone users have two > mailboxes. A primary mailbox with a .forward set to store and forward > emails to their iphone mailbox. Outlook pops the first mailbox, iphones > pop the mailbox that the duplicated messages were forwarded to. This > prevents either device from removing a message before the other has > received it.
IMAP *is* the real fix. I wonder what the objection is? Not only will that solve your email download issue but it will obsolete the overly-complicated multi-box setup as well. Seems like a great way to kill 2 birds with 1 stone to me. -- Chris Gebhardt VIRTBIZ Internet Services Access, Web Hosting, Colocation, Dedicated www.virtbiz.com | toll-free (866) 4 VIRTBIZ _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
