No, I don't think it's something to do with the iPad per se; I have an iPad and while the layout is a little different, my messages are coming in the same order.
-- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Feb 16, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Christopher Chaltain <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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.
