I use my Hero on O2 in the UK.
I can send and receive email perfectly and I leave the mail downloaded via POP3 to my phone on the server so I can download messages permanently to my PC.
My problem is that that even after messages are downloaded from the server to my PC the Hero does not detect this when it syncs and they stay on the phone rather than being cleared down (which is what WinMo does).
Anyone know if this is expected behaviour on Android, or does this sound like a bug?
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I have the T-Mobile USA MDA, and I'm trying to get my email working with my home server, however there seems to be something wrong with the IMAP4 implementation in Windows Mobile. I configured the account, and it connects just fine to my server, and begins downloading all the message headers. While this is going on, I can see the messages being added to the Inbox on the screen. Once all the message headers are downloaded, it downloads the IMAP folders, and disconnects. Here's where the problem happens. All of the messages that just got downloaded are removed from the Inbox, and it appears as if there's no email at all, even though there should be approx 70 messages. Has onyone seen this? I can't figure out what could possibly be wrong. By the way, if I use POP3 to fetch the email stead of IMAP, the problem doesn't happen, and the messages stay in the inbox, but I want to use IMAP, since that's what I use with all my other email client applications, and I want the email to stay on the server.
By the way, my home server is running Linux with Dovecot IMAP server, if that makes any difference. (shouldn't)
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I've got the same problem with my Qtek S200. And guess what... I'm using dovecot too.
I've also begun suspecting that it's an incompatibility with dovecot as well, though I'm sure the problem is with Microsoft's crappy IMAP implementation in WM5 rather than dovecot itself, since no other email application has problems with it.
And I have used the IMAP in WM5 for 5 different ISP mail servers, and 2 seperate Exchange (2000 and 2003) with no problems.
Maybe you should just try a different mail server, or a different mail client on your device?
OK, I did some more playing around with this today, and got things to work. After finding this message via Google:
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-May/013375.html
I decided to compile Dovecot from the current 1.0 rc2 source code, and sure enough, things are now working. It looks like the Dovecot developers have worked around whatever it was that was causing the Pocket Outlook implementation to delete all the messages after it downloaded them. Anyway, I'm happy now.
not sure how this is happining or if its my mistake. but this has happenened to my more than once. the phone simply decides to deletes all emails prior to a spesific date without any confirmation. thank god that there it a copy of them in the deleted folder on exchange server
anybody else suffering from this?
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This is normal, outlook is designed so it only keeps emails from a certain number of days into the past, according to the email settings.
Enter you email settings and tell it to keep the emails from the maximum allowable time, I can't remember how long but the increments were something like Today, last 3 days .... etc.
it deletes all mails that are no longer on the server, nothing to do about it, except as a workaround maybe moving important mails from inbox to antother folder
correct me if im wrong here
but i am under the impression that the number of days in the activesync options is only for the initial sync with your exchange acount
I have the same problem. Once in a while my Gmail Inbox is empty. Glad it is saved in 'All Mail' but the behaviour is very irritating
Are you connecting to your mailbox, i.e. gmail-server or just syncing with your Outlook?
When using POP3 to connect to the gmail-server, it will download all mail to your phone, and thus delete the messages on the server.
Try to connect via IMAP4 and go to the settings of your gmail-account on your phone. There you can change the number of days to something like all messages- just for your gmail-account.
The phone handles "imported" mail from outlook like a "real" email-account on the net. Thus, you can set the number of days independently for each account.
i use exchange outlook
why cant widows mobile be like blackberry it keeps all the email(compressed text on the phone) even when you remove the email to the local pst file it still stays on the device
I doenst matter if it imap or pop3, you can setup pop3 to leave a copy of the mail on the server btw.
But as soon as the mail is no longer on the mailserver (for example after downloading without keeping a copy on the server with your desktop pc) windows mobile will delete the mail from its inbox to next time you check for new mails.
whenever I upgrade a ROM I reinstall my BB software and everything works. Prob is I can never see older emails than the moment I install the software. I would like to see, say, the last 2 weeks worth of emails (in all folders)
Anyone know how to do this?
I am not familiar with the blackberry applications...but Is this a pop3 account or other based email account? If so I have had problems in the past with my phone or outlook not saving a copy of the emails on the host server. It would delete them when it checked my mail.
Maybe a setting in the way your program is setup to check the email?
Hello everyone,
I've got myself a new databundle which allows me to be connected to the internet constantly and I want to set up my email.
Now if i connect my topaz it sync's my outlook mail automaticly, but when disconnected it doesn't get my mail, when 3G and connection on.
I want the following:
When i'm not using the PC, I want my HTC to get the incoming mail for me but once connected to the pc again, these mails should have to by synced so they appear in my PC outlook at the end.
I don't know how it works in example, if I get a mail with alot of images or attachements, does the HTC download them? Or does it leave those messages on the server? I cannot lose them.
Or do I have to setup my HTC to leave a copy on the server so my outlook downloads the new messages again for a second time? (In that way only the mails that arrive on the go appear in my HTC and I can delete them without worries) - but is that even possible?
I'm really bad at understanding this.
Hi,
have my Touch Pro2 set up like follows:
- imap connection to get all emails on the run. Means originals will be kept in your inbox.
- Sync connection to outlook with individual settings for what has to be synced. (can be set easily in the windows sync manager)
My Outlook is set up with a pop3 connection and finally collects the messages from the ISP-inbox to my local disc.
In that way I am always up to date but means a periodical syncing...
That seems what i need!
How can I setup the imap connection? I don't need all my mail on the HTC, i only want to store on my PC, just the new one's i like to read on the road when i'm gone, automatically being downloaded on my PC too when i'm on it again.
However, if I do sync my email with outlook, will the imap email and the synced outlook email be together in one folder or be seperated? Will there be doubles?
Thanks!
It seems that my ISP doesn't support IMAP. How can i set an option 'leave a copy of message on server' with my HTC and POP account?
well actually when I'm on the go, I recieve all my mails via the imap connection. Imap means, that you download the email every time, when you want to read it on you HTC as long as the mail is not collected by your outlook. When you collect your emails via otlook to your local PC-disc, the mails will not be any more available via the imap connection on your phone after manual or automatic "updating".
In my HTC I have three folders set up. 1 folder is my PC outlook, the other two my email-accounts (IMAP). After having collected all my mails by outlook, I have to proceed a sync between PC and HTC and all my local stored Emails are on my HTC. Set up what and how e.g. will be done via the Mobile sync software from Microsoft.
Btw.: check your mail provider again (FAQ or else). Cannot imagine, that any mail-provider does not offer any IMAP function. Just had it years before with my dadys mail accounts. there was e.g no POP3 solution available but IMAP4...
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I've set up my exchange information and can receive all my mail from my corporate server just fine. But when I send any mail, it moves into the Outbox and sits there and never sends. I've even gone to the global outbox and clicked on the button that says to send them.
Anyone experience this? I've rebooted just to make sure it wasn't a temporary thing.
I found this is a pretty wide-spread Android flaw. I only searched the Epic forum, bad me. Looks like you either need to buy Touchdown (which h as its own set of problems) or possible fiddle with something administratively on the exchange server.
I'm sending and receiving just fine through Exchange. The mail even shows up on my outbox on my desktop.
Just an update. It was an administrative thing on our exchange server that allowed receiving to work but not sending. All working now!
I like some of the options from Window Mobile better - like selecting what folders to synch and scheduling options for downloading (don't download work email at night), but this'll do I think.