What I usually recommend is to use POP on the desktop/laptop with a leave on server and delete after 3 to 5 days. I set the smart phone with IMAP. This way, the users can get their email everywhere without building huge mailboxes on the server. Keeping 3 to 5 days is usually enough as the phone is there to get mail when you don't have access to a computer (over nights and weekends). It is not (imo) there to manage all the mail.
If there's messages that needs to be kept on the phone, you just have to move them to a subfolder (and subscribe the IMAP client to it) and it won't be deleted as the POP only reads/delete from the main Inbox. This is what I do with my iphone and it works great. Vincent Toussaint -----Original Message----- From: imail_forum-ow...@list.ipswitch.com [mailto:imail_forum-ow...@list.ipswitch.com] On Behalf Of Todd Richards Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:51 AM To: Imail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Subject: [IMail Forum] Smart Phones Hello Everyone - I guess 'tis the season for smart phones? I have had several people over the past week email and call with questions about setting up smart phones to get their email. This isn't totally uncommon, but in the past they emailed me for their settings and then had the provider help them set it up. Now they are coming to me. I'm sure I could figure it out, but it got me thinking about what the "typical" way of setting them up is. Are people POPing mail to their phone? Leaving a copy on the server for their desktop? Using IMAP? I have one person in the process now. They had been getting everything to their desktop, and would like that to be an option. So I said we may want to use IMAP for both then. However if we had a large amount of people suddenly do this, I would wonder what hit the server would take? Thanks for any thoughts! Todd PS - Still running Imail 8.2x To Unsubscribe: http://imailserver.com/support/discussion_list/ List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://imailserver.com/support/kb.html No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.9.19/1855 - Release Date: 12/18/2008 10:16 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.9.19/1855 - Release Date: 12/18/2008 10:16 AM To Unsubscribe: http://imailserver.com/support/discussion_list/ List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://imailserver.com/support/kb.html
