!! accessing mails/ skipping attachments, general mail process

Dear forums members,
i am thinking about making the move to the iphone from a windows mobile device.
Owning an ipod touch I am in love with the ui but I (think to) know of the iphone’s short-comings as well (everything in life is a trade-off…).
The main and major point of decision to me is how the mail functionality is handled:
Our company’s exchange server supports imap so this shouldn’t be a problem…
From what I’ve read and understand the process works like this:
When you check for new mails the iphone gets the headers (including 2 to 5 lines of text) and disconnects.
Let’s assume you got 5 new mails.
Mail 2 has a huge attachment (3MB pdf), but you are interested in the body of mail number 5.
As far as I understand you now have no chance to get to mail number 5 directly, skipping 1 to 4 ?!?
Is this correct???
If so this is the major point for me not getting the iphone as I am in “exotic” and “mobile expensive” countries quite often (China, India).
So in this scenario for getting to the body (not only the first 5 lines)of mail number 5 I would have to download the *3MB attachment first*???
Please tell me this isn’t so and that I misunderstood something…
Otherwise it would be a real tragedy with Apple inventing and implementing an awesome (!!) functionality for skipping voicemails but leaving out standard functionalities for getting to desired mails…
Thanks for any input!!!

cantona2k wrote:
As far as I understand you now have no chance to get to mail number 5 directly, skipping 1 to 4 ?!?
Is this correct???
This is incorrect. The 5 emails will show up as a list with the header information. You can view them in any order you like.
So in this scenario for getting to the body (not only the first 5 lines)of mail number 5 I would have to download the *3MB attachment first*???
Attachments are not automatically downloaded. You open the body of the email, then request the attachment to be downloaded to the phone.
Thanks for any input!!!
Always happy to help.

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