Help getting POP e-mail client to behave
I just moved over to an iPhone after years of being an Android user for many years. The only thing I feel like I'm missing is getting the mail client to behave the way it did on Android. On Android I used a program called K-9 Mail and it did an excellent job of synchronizing the inbox on the pjhone with my POP e-mail server. Here's how it behaved:
Download messages from the server to the phone, they stayed on the server but were marked as read. This is standard and seems to be behaving the same.
Delete a message on the phone. It was deleted on the server immediately.
Delete a message on the server or download messages from the server to my PC which deleted them from the server, they were deleted from the phone on the next synch.
I can't seem to get this level of synchronization with any iPhone clients. I've used the stock Mail client as well as tried Sparrow. Can someone tell me if I'm just missing a setting somewhere? Thanks very much.
Not sure how this was done with your android since what you are asking does not fall under the standards for a POP account. Nothing is synced with the server with a POP account. When accessing a POP account with more than one email client, new email downloaded and read with one email client will be downloaded as unread mail with the other email client and vice-versa.
If the email account provider supports IMAP account access, I would make use of that.
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