One tiny update to Alan's information below. You now get 15G of storage
between Gmail, Google Drive and Google Plus. Not long ago, Google merged
the storage for these services, so you no longer have the greater than
7G limit on Gmail, although 15G is greater than 7G!
On 11/29/2013 10:02 AM, Alan Lemly wrote:
I'll add to Christopher's excellent comments. Many options exist for
configuring your email setup to meet your needs. I use POP on my personal
computer with Outlook since I got familiar with that through work and have
been using POP for years. I have my Gmail account configured to move
messages out of the Inbox and save them in its All Mail archive folder when
they are downloaded to Outlook on my personal computer. my iPhone 5 email is
configured with IMAP so I can always review anything by going to the All
Mail folder with it or I can go to the Inbox to check out new messages that
have come in since shutting down Outlook on my personal computer. Gmail
offers in excess of 7GB for your account so having access to my entire email
population is not an issue.
As I said, options are available so you should be able to set up your email
accounts so they do just what you need.
Alan Lemly
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 11:38 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: email and other question
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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