How did your phone pick up your email settings from your PC? If you're
using POP, you probably don't want to use the same settings on both your
phone and your PC. In general, POP will download the emails to your
device and then erase them from your server, meaning you can't access
your email from multiple devices. You can change these settings a bit.
Here's how I had things set up when I was using POP on multiple devices.
On my PC, I configured it to download my messages and remove them from
the server. Therefore, whenever I checked my mail on my PC, I could take
care of all of it, but I wouldn't be able to access any messages I
downloaded to my PC from any other device. The PC was where I stored all
of my email for future reference.
On my other devices, I configured POP to download my messages to the
device but leave them on my server. I further configured it to delete
any messages from the server that I moved to a folder or deleted from my
device. This way I could check my email on one of my devices, delete the
messages I didn't have to archive or deal with later, and leave the rest
on the server until I could get to my PC.
It may be the case that your email is sluggish when you bring it up
because all of those messages need to be downloaded. The reason you see
the same messages on both your PC and your iPhone could be that you're
leaving your messages on the server, and deleting them from your phone
or your PC isn't deleting them from the server, so they're redownloaded
every time you check your email.
Note I did this until I switched to Gmail and IMAP. If you'll be dealing
with your email from multiple devices, and you don't have a compelling
reason to stick with POP, you might want to make the leap to IMAP. Note
that there are some advantages to POP over IMAP, but they probably
aren't worth it if you're going to be accessing your email from multiple
devices.
On 11/28/2013 04:19 PM, Tessa wrote:
Thanks both of you.
yes the screen off issue is a very small problem.
The email is a little more signifficant because I have almost 3000 messages
and often when I open my mail and it checks for new mail I have to wait
minutes before I can actually get the screen to do anything. I touch it and
it doesn't respond until some time later when i get repeated clicks. Once
the clicks have been gone through than I can access the screen, but
sometimes it takes a while.
Well my ISP recently suggested due to it upgrading that we all switch to
imap? but I haven't and am still using pop3 and I assume since my phone
picked up my email settings from my pc that it is also using pop3.
Anyway, thanks again.
Tessa
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Christopher (CJ)
chaltain at Gmail
and still have it waiting for me on the server when I checked
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