Occasionally my iPad 2 does not download POP3 emails with the error "This message has not been downloaded from the server"

The error is "This message has not been downloaded from the server". I used to get this sometimes on my iPhone 3G too.  The messages can be downloaded by a PC client or GMail or another type of smartphone. The
Chris

My question, which I thought was obvious, was has Apple got a workaround for this obvious error in their IOS email client. It hasn't been fixed and it's about time it was.
The fact that this problem :-
1. Manifests itself on both iPhone and iPad devices
2. Does not show up on Windows clients (Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010, Windows Live Mail, Becky 2)
3. Does not show up on web clients (GMail, Pobox, Hotmail)
4. Does not show up on MacOS clients
5. Does not show up on Android clients (Mail, Touchdown)
Leads to the inevitable conclusion that the problem is not device related (so I agree with you there) but is client / platform (Mail or IOS) related. The fact that more research on this forum shows that this issue has been around since IOS 1.0 days corroborates this conclusion.
I do not agree with you presumption that the issue is with the message, all the evidence above refutes this.
So here I am on the official Apple discussion forum seeking enlightenment and assistance from the combined knowledge of the assembled technorati. And quite frankly your terse, bad tempered message falls way short. If there were an "unhelpful answer" button on your message I would have pushed it.

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