I use IMAP on the iPhone and POP in Eudora. When you check mail using POP it "archives" the mail, which puts it into "All Mail" from IMAP or on the web version. My gmail account has ~300,000 messages, so lots of mail. The phone never craps out because it is using IMAP. The Mac never craps out because it is using POP. Note that in this configuration, you will NOT have messages on the computer that are sent from the phone.
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: >> >> I have somehow managed to screw up my work email. We gmail hosts our >> company email. Most people now days just log into gmail and read mail >> online. I am old fashioned and have it all come into outlook where I have >> all emails back even before we went to gmail. So the way it has been >> working apparently is I had outlook setup as pop and my phone was setup >> imap. When messages are downloaded it marks three read in gmail but leaves >> them. I am used to my okie server that leaves them on the server but when >> downloaded on my computer at home it will then remove from server. So >> problem started when I tried to look into why my iPhone was filled up with >> email. I could have sworn there used to be a setting in it that limited the >> number of messages to something like 1000, or 7 days or something like that >> then they fell off the phone. I could not find such a setting so I mass >> deleted all the read emails off my phone. This set something in motion >> somehow that my laptop is now downloaded emails from back to 2011 in >> batches of 4-500, then click send and receive and another 4-500 come in. >> They are duplicates of what is already downloaded into outlook. >> >> So I want to be able to check email while on the go from my phone, but I >> want them to be able to be downloaded on my laptop, but I don't want them >> sitting on my phone forever eating up space, but if I delete them off my >> phone I don't what them to delete them off gmail so they can't download to >> my laptop. There is a setting i gmail that says when a message is >> downloaded via pop you can set it to mark it as read, leave it in inbox, >> move it to archive, or delete it from server. If I was downloaded in from >> computer it could delete from server, but I don't want it to delete from >> server from my phone. Maybe if I have it pop on computer but still imap >> from phone it will leave them, but if I set it to delete via pop when I >> download them on computer they will delete from gmail and my phone? I guess >> I am trying to have a mix of old and new tech to manage emails. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
