Synching e-mail on iPhone vs. computer
How do I set my e-mail so that when I delete an e-mail from my i-Phone, it is also deleted from my computer and vice versa? It is becoming annoying to have to delete everything twice. Thanks!
Your sbcglobal account is a POP account so nothing can ever match up except for downloaded messages. A POP account is designed to be accessed with a single email client on one computer or device. Messages with a POP cannot be synchronized with the server.
The reason your .Mac account matches up is because you are accessing your .Mac account as an IMAP account with the Mail application on your Mac and as an IMAP account with the iPhone. You have the option to store Sent messages on the server with the Mail application on your Mac and with the iPhone so when sending a message with your iPhone the sent message will be available with the Mail.app on your Mac and vice-versa. You can also store Drafts, Trash and Junk messages on the server with both so all account messages will be kept synchronized automatically with the server on both.
This is the benefit of an IMAP account and what it was designed for which is not available with a POP account.
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I added an e-mail account to my iphone using microsoft exchange; all went fine. I then deleted a number of contacts from my iphone that I did not want on my phone. when I went into my e-mail account on my computer the contacts were deleted from there also. Will I be able to retrieve them? If so, how? Thank you.
In the device sync pages select Photos on the top at the right.
Un tick Sync Photos
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Several of my authorized pc laptops and desktops have completely died over the years, and have no way to deauthorize iTunes on them. Now I am unable to synch purchases on my Iphone to new computer with iTunes because I already have 5 computers authorized. What can be done?
Deauthorise all to reset to zero, then authorize again.
Following quote from Apple Support:
If you need to authorize your new computer and are unable due to already having five authorized computers, you can deauthorize all computers by doing the following:
Click iTunes Store on the left side of iTunes.
If you're not signed in to the store, click the Account button, then enter your account name and password.
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In the Account Information window, click Deauthorize All.
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How do I get mail on my iPhone and computer to sync automatically, so e.g. messages read on one appear read on both? I am working in VN and the microsoft access server is in the USA.
If you created as an Exchange account on the iPhone (not IMAP or POP) and you have Push on it should all work smoothly; Reading a message on either client should mark the other read (it does on mine). Try deleting the account from the phone, rebooting the phone (to clear out old settings), then go to Settings/Mail,Contacts,Calendar, add an account and tap Microsoft Exchange and add the account back.
There is a fundamental difference between BB and iPhone that you should be aware of; on the BB you do not sync directly with Exchange; you sync with the RIM server which then syncs with your Exchange server. The iPhone syncs directly with Exchange using Microsoft's ActiveSync protocol. So in some ways they will behave differently. But ActiveSync should manage marking messages as read correctly. -
I have iphone 3G. When I e-mail my photos to computer they come out sideways. Is there a way to correct this?
Where are you emailing the from? The Phone? Are these shots taken with the Phone or got form somewhere else? What happens if you import them directly from the phone?
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maybe you can help....I can receive mail fine, but when I open or delete emails from my iphone or computer, it will not sync with each other....so I have 600 emails on my iphone and 100 on my computer..I have looked at everything I can think of
I don't know about the systems, but is your phone on wireless and your other device on wireless? Then I think they would mutually update.
Howerver the previous response from ckuan sounds much more informed so I would check that out. -
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Mail clients will not sync with POP email. Each client retrieves mail from the server independent of each other.
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I have a late 2006 version on the imac desktop computer. I downloaded Lion and got icloud on my computer. I followed the directions to get photos and itunes synched onto my new iphone but it is not working. Can you help? Am I doing something wrong?
ThanksEverything seems to be in order so here goes. Connect the iPhone to your computer via USB 2.0 port.The USB ports on the 2006 iMac keyboard are USB 1.1 and I don't think that will work for the iPhone 5. Next locate the device in iTunes 11, it will be next to the iTunes Store button
You will see ten options at the top of the summary page. From this explaination we will go over Apps and Photos. You will need to play around with the other options to suit your liking.
In the Apps tab simply remove or install apps you want on your iPhone
In the Photos tab you will need to check the 'Sync Photos from' option and navigate to iPhoto in the Applications folder (if not already set to iPhoto)
Once you go through all the device settings and you are happy with the selection click Apply in the lower right corner of the iTunes window.
Wait for the sync to finish and the selected data should be on the device -
My music on iPhone disappeared when I synched my phone and computer. I uploaded all 32 CDs again to computer. It will not synch the music to iPhone. HELP
Some other things to verify:
On the summary tab of your iTunes sync settings check "Sync only checked songs and videos"
In your music library check all the songs you want to sync to your phone
Make sure there are no exclamation points next to any of the songs you want to sync to your phone
Be sure to authorize your computer for all Apple IDs used for any purchased music you want to sync to your phone (in Store>Authorize This Computer)
Then make sure you have checked Sync Music on the Music tab of your iTunes sync settings and sync your device. -
When I delete my e-mails in my iphone the e-mails in my home computer also
are deleted.
How can i change the settings, so my e-mails in my home computer aren't deleted.
Thanks,What account is it?
What is most likely happening is your email is IMAP. IMAP email accounts are designed to keep multiple computers in sync. What is done on one computer effects all the others. In this case you need to NOT delete them off your phone. Leave them be and when you move/delete them on your computer the phone will also get that change. -
How can i transfer mails from iphone to outlook
how can i transfer mails from iphone to outlook
I misread your post. You can't transfer items to iTunes without connection to your computer. To transfer without synching, make sure you don't have your preferences in iTunes set to automatically synch. Then when you connect your phone but before you synch, in iTunes File>Transfer purchases. Note that only iTunes purchased media can be transferred this way.
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Can't send document attachments from Mail to iPhone
...well I can but not very well.... When using Gmail IMAP to sync everything, document attachments sent from Mac Mail to iPhone mail arrive as a bit of mess.. i.e. not as attachments but as text within the email itself, plus lots of garbled numbers and letters. Strange because if I send the same message from the iPhone back to itself or from webmail-Gmail it works fine. Its also just fine with photos and Pdf's. Help!
No, sorry. false alarm.
I just received a message, sent by Apple Mail 2.1.2 from OS 10.4.11, through POP, to an email-forwarding address, to my imap-gmail, and received from there (by IMAP) with Mail 2.1.2, too.
Details of what got garbled below, just to say that sending the email not to the forwarding address but directly to [email protected] did not help either.
the email was constructed like so:
- some text, readable.
- an attached PDF, space characters in name. this entire pdf was just printed in the email, meaning the postscript code and what have you.
- some more text, that was still readable
- an attached image that was probably pasted into the email, the name was "pastedGraphic.png". The image survived.
- text, readable.
- another PDF, raw contents printed into email body.
- a zip file, spaces in name, made with the built-in archive maker of Tiger. Also here, the entire 'source code' of the zip is printed in the body copy.
- some final bits of text. readable.
On another computer, this email was not routed through a gmail account and was received by POP. not a single problem there. In fact, not ever.
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Mail on my Mac computer does not update when I update my mail on my iPhone and iPad. Can anyone help me with this? Is there a setting that I need to check?
All that you had to do was to sign into the old account in order to update those apps. What I mean is that you just needed to sign into that account in the store settings like I described and that should have worked. You didnt need to enter the credit card information again - you justed needed to use the old ID and password.
Anyway, I think the good news is that if everything else is OK with the new account, just download iBooks with the new ID - it's a free app so its not like you have to pay for it again. I'm not sure what the other App is that you are talking about - but if it is the Apple Store App - that is free as well.
Try this anyway, when you try to update iBooks, just use the old password if the old ID still pops up.
Did you try signing into the store settings with your new ID and see what happens with the updates then? -
The title speaks for itself. It's very anoying opening a message on the iphone and when you get to the mac all the messages you read allready on the iphone are not opened yet. Is there any way of syncing them so if you open a mail in iphone its marked 'read' in mac?
Thanks in advanceSuch behavior requires an IMAP or Exchange account. Sounds like you have a POP account & that's the way that POP accounts work. POP was designed for an age when users had only one device...a computer, thus POP doesn't play well in the modern world where users have multiple devices.
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E-Mail on the iPhone is useless! Setting up the POP account was a breeze. I can now get E-mail to show up in my iPhone inbox. The problem, “This message has not been downloaded from server.” Next message, “Cannot Get Mail. The user name of password for the “pop.XXX.com” is incorrect.” Good, now we’re getting somewhere. I have modified, re-entered, and changed the login info several time, only to see these messages again! I also have received a message that says, “This message has no content.” Pair these errors with those seen by others in this forum and why even have an e-mail app!? They have made it so easy that they have taken out all the settings that could be useful for making the app work.
And how do I get iTunes to actually sync my e-mail with my phone?? With my Treo I was able to sync all of my mail in my PC inbox. This is useful for reference and meetings. The iPhone only displays and syncs new messages. And, see above, I can’t send myself the messages again so that I have them in the iPhone!
I am so frustrated! OK, so now someone tell me how stupid I am and all I have to do is…is…
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I would like to apologize that your feel frustrated, and try to explain what I believe is happening in your situation.
The limitation you are running into is because of two things. The POP3 server you are accessing is configured to only allow 1 connection per account at a time. That is why you are being prompted for your password. Not all POP3 servers are configured this way.
One way to look at a POP3 server is similiar to a PO Box. If both clients try to grab your mail at the same time, sometimes things get stuck. Some POP3 servers go into a "pop lock" or "pop.lock" for that account when this happens, others require reauthentication. By requiring the password again it knows which one you are actually checking "live".
As for the "This message has no content" or "This message has not been downloaded yet", it is because your computer is removing the messages from the server when it downloads them. This is a setting you can adjust on most mail programs on your computer.
The iPhone downloads them as needed, and normally just pulls a list of messages from the server first. If they are removed by your computer before the iPhone can get them, the iPhone can't download them. Going back to the PO Box analogy, your computer is removing the mail from the PO Box. The iPhone gets a list of the email, and then brings you the ones you go to read. If your computer shows up and removes the mail in the interim, the iPhone can't get the email.
If you want truly synchronized mail on multiple devices you may want to consider an account that supports IMAP. While this article is specific to .Mac, it does a good job of explaining the differences between POP and IMAP mail protocols:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=51729
Hope this helps,
Nathan C.
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