Hello,
Did I misunderstand? I thought it said that both would download the same 
messages?

----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Chaltain  <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Saturday, October 3, 2015 11:28 pm
Subject: Re: POP was: Re: Question about the viewing of mail on an iPad

>
>
> That's not exactly what the article said. It did recommend using IMAP 
> for mobile devices. It also said that you shouldn't use POP3 to download 
> and store your messages on multiple devices, but these were two separate 
> statements. Here's the passage I think you're referring to:
> 
> The downside of POP3 in a multi-device world is that you'll have to take 
> some precautions and think hard about how to access email on a mobile 
> device.
> 
> As for smartphones and tablets, you should still use IMAP there if 
> possible, even if you're using POP3 on your PC. The last thing you want 
> to do is download email to both your phone and your PC via POP3, since 
> you'll end up with two separate repositories of email: stuff downloaded 
> to your phone and stuff downloaded to your PC. It's a nightmare.
> 
> On 10/03/2015 04:38 PM, Rajmund wrote:
> > Hello,
> > The article said that if you download with POP, the mobile device should 
> > still be on IMAP, to avoid everything from redownloading. But it doesn't 
> > redownload, at least mine don't.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Christopher Chaltain  <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Date: Saturday, October 3, 2015 10:16 pm
> > Subject: Re: Question about the viewing of mail on an iPad
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Sorry, I don't understand your mesage. You can configure POP3 to leave
> >> messages on the server or download them to your client and remove them
> >> from the server. IMAP will always leave your messages on the server, and
> >> if you're going to read them on a client then they will be downloaded to
> >> that client.
> >>
> >> On 10/03/2015 03:55 PM, Rajmund wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>> Disagree with the article. If I receive with one unit, neither does GMX 
> >>> or gmail redownload them again on the other unit. True, they are note 
> >>> taker.
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: Christopher Chaltain  <[email protected]>
> >>> To: [email protected]
> >>> Date: Saturday, October 3, 2015 9:03 pm
> >>> Subject: Re: Question about the viewing of mail on an iPad
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I guess that depends on how much you trust your own security procedures
> >>>> versus some system administrator at a large company. Plus, email stored
> >>>> on your own device won't be subject to data mining or a search warrant
> >>>> processed against your email provider. Here's an article on why someone
> >>>> might want to still use POP3 which includes a discussion on security
> >>>> http://www.pcworld.com/article/2838189/two-good-reasons-to-stick-with-pop3-email-over-imap.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Are you saying that the fact that POP3 mail is stored on your own device
> >>>> is the bases behind your statement that IMAP is more secure?
> >>>>
> >>>> Note that IMASP is plenty secure for me, and it's the protocol I
> >>>> switched to myself a few years ago. POP3 still has some advantages over
> >>>> IMAP though, and I can see why some would still choose to use it. I'm
> >>>> just suspicious of unsupported claims like this when they're counter to
> >>>> common sense or my own knowledge or experience. I'd caution anyone to
> >>>> take much stock in such a claim and encourage people to do more research
> >>>> themselves before just taking the word of someone on a public mailing 
> >>>> list.
> >>>>
> >>>> On 10/03/2015 02:37 PM, Daniel Miller wrote:
> >>>>> Having your messages stored on your own device rather than a server 
> >>>>> seems pretty insecure to me...but hey, what do I know?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On Oct 3, 2015, at 2:29 PM, Christopher Chaltain <[email protected]> 
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I'm curious, how is POP3 less secure? IMAP has plenty of advantages 
> >>>>>> over POP3, but I've never heard security is one of them. In fact, some 
> >>>>>> people are concerned about the security of IMAP since your email 
> >>>>>> messages are stored on a server and not your own device.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 10/03/2015 02:16 PM, Daniel Miller wrote:
> >>>>>>> Yes, you can only use map now. Besides, pop3 is less secure.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Oct 3, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Rajmund <[email protected]
> >>>>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>>>> Can I chime in, please? Where's POP3? Within IOS8.3, I could get to 
> >>>>>>>> it
> >>>>>>>> from other. Now, however, I can only see the incoming server's
> >>>>>>>> heading. Did Apple :( :( :( remove POP? And yeppers, using an IPad..
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>>>>> From: Mary Otten  <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >>>>>>>> To:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> >>>>>>>> Date: Saturday, October 3, 2015 7:10 pm
> >>>>>>>> Subject: Question about the viewing of mail on an iPad
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I have had an iPad first generation and then an iPad mini two for
> >>>>>>>>> sometime now. I don't like the mail on this device, because whenever
> >>>>>>>>> I open the mail app, it automatically opens into a mail message
> >>>>>>>>> rather than into my mailbox list of messages. I have looked through
> >>>>>>>>> settings, and I don't see a way to change this. Even if I close the
> >>>>>>>>> mail app with the messages list in view, the next time I open it, it
> >>>>>>>>> opens with A message opened. Is there a way that I have been missing
> >>>>>>>>> all these years to force this app open with the messages list in 
> >>>>>>>>> view
> >>>>>>>>> rather than having an individual message open? It seems like there
> >>>>>>>>> should be.
> >>>>>>>>> Mary
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
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