I haven't done it myself, but I know pretty savvy computer users who do use POP and IMAP with their Gmail account at the same time. Actually, I was doing this for a short time without knowing it, and everything seemed to work. I too would be worried about potential side effects of doing it this way though. It might be time to go to Google again.
On 15/02/13 13:46, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > > I can’t say this for sure, but I would be careful if you use POP with > your gmail account on the computer and IMAP on the iPhone. I do remember > that in “Settings” on your gmail account you have to enable either POP > or IMAP depending on what you want to use and I’m not sure if it will > work in a mixed mode so to speak. > > > > Which version of Windows and Outlook are you using? If it’s Outlook 2007 > or 2010 I don’t see why you wouldn’t use IMAP both on the computer and > the iPhone and this way your mail would always be in sync. > > > > > > Regards, > > Sieghard > > > > *From:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Alan Lemly > *Sent:* Friday, February 15, 2013 6:47 AM > *To:* VIPhone Email List > *Subject:* Settin Up Gmail Account as IMAP - first iPhone Connection > > > > I've done a lot of reading on the best way to configure my email > accounts on my local computer and the iPhone. I'm pretty clear on the > settings I need. I use POP with Outlook on my desktop computer and plan > to use IMAP on the iPhone 5. My question has to do with what exactly > will be downloaded to my iPhone the first time I use it to check my > gmail account. I save all my email on the gmail servers with about 3.3GB > of these messages archived in the All Mail folder. The gmail server > inbox contains just the messages not yet downloaded to Outlook on my > desktop computer. > > > > I'm concerned that the first time I access gmail with my iPhone, all > messages including those archived will be downloaded from the servers to > my phone. Let me change that. I think with IMAP, the full message is not > actually downloaded but just the headers and subjects. I only want the > iPhone to get messages that are in the inbox, not all the archived messages. > > > > Can anyone tell me if I need to configure my phone differently to get > what I want? Will setting it up as IMAP result in the headers for > everything in my gmail account being downloaded to my phone when I > access it? > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > Alan Lemly > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
