Email question and a thought
I have (lately) begun my day by clearing all messages off the 3 servers I use for email after I'm sure I have downloaded everything locally to my main desktop computer. I use the get info option at the bottom of the mailbox pane in Apple Mail to clear all messages off the servers. I check the titles of each email that I might want to leave there and delete the rest. This seems to make email checking from the iPhone when I'm on the road go much quicker. If I have everything I want downloaded locally is there any risk in doing this manually. I have certain accounts where the messages are left on the server for varying amounts of time because I may be on the road for a week and want them when I return.
Also since I get email on three devices, my iPhone, my iMac and my MacBook, how does each device "know" that a particular email hasn't yet been downloaded to it. Is the previous header info on each email stored on each device and does it then compare what it has to what it gets and either does or does not download the message? Or is this info on each server itself.
Thanks for your help.
CD3
As with any other email client used to access a POP account, the iPhone's email client includes a setting for a POP account for when to remove downloaded messages from the server. In your situation, you want this to be Never for the account settings on the iPhone. Go to Setting > Mail. Select the POP account and then the Advanced button. Under Settings at Delete From Server, select Never. This must be done for each POP account - there is not a universal setting for all POP accounts if you are accessing more than one.
This information is not stored on the server for the account and is based on the message. With the Mail application on your Mac, each POP account has a file named messageuidsalreadydownloaded which is available in the POP account named folder for each POP account at the Finder level at Home > Library > Mail > this POP account named folder.
There must be something similar on the iPhone but there is no manual way to access such a file on the iPhone.
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