Comments on: 30 Days of iPhone – Day 2

By: Skeuomorph

Skeuomorph — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:25:12 +0000

Q. How should I use POP on mobile or multiple devices?

A. If you’re accessing your Gmail using POP from multiple clients, Gmail’s recent mode makes sure that all messages are made available to each client, rather than only to the first client to access new mail.

Recent mode fetches the last 30 days of mail, regardless of whether it’s been sent to another POP client already.

If you sign in to Gmail using your Blackberry, you’re signed in to recent mode automatically. For all other POP clients, replace ‘username@gmail.com’ in your POP client settings with ‘recent:username@gmail.com’.

https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=47948

(After the first check, it will only get new messages. You’ll also likely want to set up a filter in Gmail to move your own sent mail out of the Inbox.)

By: Rick O'Neil

Rick O'Neil — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:03:42 +0000

I have a POP 3 email and I’ve had issues with it not downloading the whole message. It’ll say “this message has not been downloaded”, and I can’t get it to retrieve it. I also set up my work email but when I turn it on in the phone it stops working on my computer. like I can login to my email on two devices.

By: phil

phil — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:08:59 +0000

hey michael,

have you tried “archiving” your gmail inbox? i.e. you select all of the mails in your inbox (that can take a while since google only allows you to select 50 at a time) and then click on “archive”. that will remove them from the inbox, but not delete them. they will still be available under “all mail” and all your labels, also they are still searchable.

maybe that helps.

By: The Wizard

The Wizard — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:32:27 +0000

That’s depressive. Yahoo and Google should have a statement about this situation.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:26:00 +0000

I had the same problem with gmail since I had a lot of old emails in my inbox. To solve it, I simply archived all of the old mail that I wanted to keep, but didn’t want downloaded to my iPhone, and now the iPhone only downloads the latest messages.

By: John

John — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:49:18 +0000

Something that most people don’t know about POP3 mail. Everytime your mail client asks for mail the mail server will give it the name and size of every message in the inbox.

Unless you remove every message from your inbox everytime you download mail or you have the mail server is set to not tell the client about messages that have already been downloaded/read your going to get that list and it’s up to the client to figure out which messages on that list it want’s to download. If you have two clients this is the only way that both can read the messages. It’s up to each client to keep track of what messages it’s downloaded.

The first time the iPhone asked for mail it had no idea which message had read or unread so it had to download everyone. The next time it ask for mail it will only download those that it had downloaded before.

That’s why you got 1,300 messages. I hope this helps.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:42:19 +0000

@Steve

I just checked, and I didn’t get anything. Try resending to michael (at) applegazette (dot) com

Now I’m worried that I’m missing emails

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:12:21 +0000

Check the AG emails, I sent you a little request.

By: John

John — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:43:23 +0000

You could always set up a second gmail account have your computer at home download all the gmail messages and then have apple mail use a rule to forward the new messages to the new gmail account and then just download the new messages from the new gmail account although I need to find out how to set it up so that when you reply or even compose the email that it looks like it came from your email account,