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As a new iPhone user, before I do something disastrous (I once wiped out an email account completely when trying to use IMAP after delete stuff in one place and having the effect synched everywhere), I am wonder how best to use email on my iPhone.
I use Mail.app on my Mac. If I want to check for new email, and possibly respond, but not affect my usual Mac email downloads later on, is there a best way to set things up so I retrieve my email but leave it on the server for later download when I'm at my Mac? I am hesitant about switching everything to IMAP.
Or... is there a better way? How do most people set it up?
Thank,
doug

Thanks for your response Allan.
One followup point regarding this. I didn't set up my Gmail account via the iPhones Mail client. It was set up automatically for me when I did my first synch and I said it was ok to synch email accounts.
However, my Gmail account on my Mac inside Mail.app is NOT set for IMAP - it is POP3.
So it appears that the iPhone not only sets your Gmail account as IMAP when setting up in the client by choosing the Gmail option, but that it also OVERRIDES the settings when synching the account information from your Mac, turning a POP3 account into an IMAP account.
I guess the only way of turning it back to POP3 would be to delete that account on the iPhone and create another one via the "Other" account setting.
But it seems to be working well as is.
I think it is safer to have one "master" account (like on my main computer) that is POP3 and doesn't synch with all the other accounts. I had a disastrous experience once with IMAP and lost all of an account's email because of the synching. Since then I prefer to use POP3 on my main account and keep all my email offline - and also constantly backed up with Time Machine.
I also have my main mail set to "archive when downloaded" from Gmail, so there is yet another backup that way.
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