Your provider may offer that option and the server is telling your Pre that it should behave as an IMAP client.
No idea beyond that, as I only sync Gmail and Exchange to my Pre. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:46 PM, George Kontos <[email protected]> wrote: > My email is POP3, but the Pre thinks it is IMAP and has it configured as > such. I'm surprised it is working at all! The MAIL TYPE option is grayed > out and it won't let me change it. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Michael M. Rye > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 5:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Treo] Pre email configuration > > When using an IMAP account, messages are always on the server. > Anything you do to them is always done and synced on the server. > > If you're using a POP3 account, go into the account Preferences in > the Pre Email program and shut off the "Sync deleted emails" switch. > > -- > Michael > > On 1/25/2010 5:12 PM, George Kontos wrote: >> I've been playing with the new Pre Plus all afternoon. I think I'm > getting >> the hang of it. Beautiful interface! >> >> Regarding the email. the account configuration seemed to be totally >> automatic. Is there a way to manually configure the settings for things >> like "leave copy of message on the server", or when you delete a message > to >> have it deleted from the server too? The Treo 700p had such an option. >> >> George >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
