Hotmail live plus problem

Question

i have configured my 3g iphone to retrieve my hotmail via pop3. it works except only the 50 oldest message (which have been read long ago) where retrieved. I archived all except the 50 most recent from the inbox into another folder. now mail on the iphone will only fetch 50 messages at a time. when a new mail arrives its there on the web in hotmail but not on the iphone. if i delete message from the iphone inbox then new messages appear in the iphone inbox after a update/fetch.
help!

Answer 1

if you stick the following in google you can search this form;
*iphone hotmail oldest messages site:http://discussions.apple.com/*
There are plenty of people with our problem and no one appears to have resolved it.
I found a post by 'Alan Sampson' about half way in this thread;
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1548276&tstart=1
+You can't stop this because the account is a POP account.+
+When creating a POP account with a new email client that you've been accessing with another email client - or when re-creating a POP account with an email client such as in this situation, all messages available at the incoming mail server, or that remain at the incoming mail server will be downloaded again.+
+If you aren't interested in these messages, why are they still available at the incoming mail server?+
+As with any other email client, the iPhone's Mail client includes a setting to remove/delete messages from the server when downloaded.+
Can anyone one confirm this, and why the same didnt happen with gmail?