Re: imap email

From: Helio Diamant - MS/MVP, Mobile Devices (helio_at_nospam.pocketpcfreak.com)
Date: 12/08/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 13:27:03 +0200

Well, Alexander's title is "imap mail"... 

-- 
Helio Diamant - MS/MVP Mobile Devices
http://www.pocketpcfreak.com
"Tim Nicholson" <tim@pdainfosource.com> wrote in message
news:uN4td.524939$D%.67828@attbi_s51...
> Guys, I'm a little confused by this thread. It sounds to me like Alexander
> is using POP3. POP3 is really designed for use with a single email
package.
> You can tell it to leave the messages on the server and that will let you
> download the same mail to different locations, but its not really designed
> for all that.
>
> IMAP is specifically designed for the mail to reside on the server and
> synchronize changes from more than one location. When I read a message on
> either the PC or the PPC, it gets marked as read on the server and then
> marked as read on the other platform. Same thing when I delete a message.
I
> can delete the SPAM from my PPC, even after that same SPAM has been
> downloaded to my PC, and when I resync on the PC that SPAM is removed. I
> just tried this. I'm using an iPAQ 4155 with WM2003FE and a WinXP SP2
laptop
> with Outlook Express 6.x.
>
> -- 
> Tim Nicholson
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>
> "Helio Diamant - MS/MVP, Mobile Devices" <helio@nospam.pocketpcfreak.com>
> wrote in message news:ucTE3i52EHA.3756@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> > Yes, it does.
> >
> > Somehow the email download in Pocket Inbox acts as a sort of a
> > synchronization between the Inbox and Outbox folders. So everything that
> > you
> > delete from your deleted records but is still in the Inbox of the Server
> > will be downloaded again.
> >
> > For what I can remember, this happens as well with POP3, not only with
> > IMAP.
> >
> > -- 
> > Helio Diamant - MS/MVP Mobile Devices
> > http://www.pocketpcfreak.com
> >
> >
> > "Alexander Ross" <alexross@bleen.net> wrote in message
> > news:e0FPcH02EHA.2592@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >> I do this and the messages simply download again ....
> >>
> >> let me give more detail ... I have an email account that I check
> > (primarily)
> >> with Outlook2003 using POP. This account in Outlook is set to keep a
copy
> > of
> >> all messages on the server for 10 days. I do this so that i can grab my
> >> recent emails while at work (using outlook2002) or on my Dell Axim.  If
I
> >> read a message at work (one that has already been read and downloaded
at
> >> home) and I delete it (and hit purge deleted items) then the message is
> > gone
> >> from the server perminantly).  Using my Axim, I see the same messages
> >> that
> >> are still on my server even after the POP3 account has downloaded them
> >> and
> >> if I hit delete the message moves to the deleted folder on my Axim, but
> >> it
> >> is not deleted on the server. In fact, if I empty the deleted folder on
> >> my
> >> Axim, all the emails i have deleted that are still on the server will
> >> download again.  Does this all make sense?
> >>
> >> Alex
> >>
> >>
> >> "Eric Hicks [MVP, Windows Mobile devices]" <e_dadu@nomospam.yahoo.com>
> > wrote
> >> in message news:e7i8R3s2EHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> >> > This should happen automatically using imap, the thing to remember is
> > that
> >> > after deleting items on your device you have to do another
send/recieve
> > to
> >> > update the status on the server.
> >> >
> >> > -- 
> >> > Eric Hicks [That_Kid] (MS-MVP Mobile Devices)
> >> >
> >> > The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
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> >> > rights...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > "Alexander Ross" <alexross@bleen.net> wrote in message
> >> > news:%23hUrgTl2EHA.3452@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> >> >> Dell Axim x30 (ppc 2003)...
> >> >>
> >> >> I have an imap email account set up on using the mesaging program
> >> >> (outlook??) that comew with ppc 2003.  Is there a wasy to set it so
> > that
> >> >> when I delete a message it deletes on the server aswell?  IN OE6 for
> >> >> windows, there is a "purge deleted messages" option. Does this exist
> > here
> >> >> somewhere?
> >> >>
> >> >> Alex
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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