No, I did not. It's the default. I think you can change it to grab the newest 100 or 200 or so on, but I'm not sure you can change it to grab say the oldest messages. Note that some people on this list have reported problems with all of their thousands of emails being downloaded to their iPads, but I didn't have this problem myself, and I'm not sure how it could happen unless the iPad handles emails differently from the iPhone with some different options for example.
On 15/02/13 10:14, Alan Lemly wrote: > Christopher, thanks for your reply. Did you have to tweak a particular > setting on your iPhone email setup to get just the newest 50 gmail messages? > If so, what is that setting? > > Alan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Christopher Chaltain > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 9:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Settin Up Gmail Account as IMAP - first iPhone Connection > > I use IMAP with Gmail on my iPhone, and I just get the newest 50 > messages downloaded to the phone, and as you said, it's not the whole > message, if it's a particularly large message. > > On 15/02/13 08:47, Alan Lemly wrote: >> 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. >> >> > -- 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.
