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Posted by: Dekkerd

Did a quick search, no luck. I'm experimenting with using the 220 to replace my laptop.
I have email set to check every 15 minutes. Problem is, I'm not going to check it every time. It seems that if it gets a message, then checks again in 15 minutes, it will delete any message downloaded earlier, regardless of whether I've read it. Any way to fix this? It's probaly obvious, but I'm tired...

Posted by: kingbear2

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Originally Posted by Dekkerd

Did a quick search, no luck. I'm experimenting with using the 220 to replace my laptop.
I have email set to check every 15 minutes. Problem is, I'm not going to check it every time. It seems that if it gets a message, then checks again in 15 minutes, it will delete any message downloaded earlier, regardless of whether I've read it. Any way to fix this? It's probaly obvious, but I'm tired...

Well, the phone itself will never delete messages off the server, but you may have a program such as Outlook running on a different computer somewhere checking your e-mail every few minutes that IS deleting the messages off the server, and that's why when the phone checks 15 minutes later the message is gone.

Posted by: Dekkerd

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Sorry, should've been clearer. It's not delting it off the server, just out of the phones inbox.

Say it checks mail at 800, and gets 2 messages. I don't check them, or do anything else with the phone. It'll check again at 815, and the 2 unread messages will disappear from the inbox.

Posted by: Dekkerd

OK, this is apparently a gmail specific problem. Yahoo doesn't have this problem. Only solution I can think of is to leaveit at manual settings, or set it to a much longer length.

Posted by: Omega2008

Lol I could of told you that! Its an issue with GMail. I would of told you that my friend if you said you was using GMail lol.

Posted by: Dekkerd

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LOL, should've mentioned that.
However, I see it as a problem with the phone, not Gmail.
Gmail only allows 1 POP download per message. No problem there, its a free service, so can't argue too much.
My computer retains any unread messages, even if it checks later and the server has it marked as read. Why can't the phone?

Posted by: Omega2008

Its something to do with there server....I don't know why...If it can do it with another POP mail account but not the other than it has to be there server.....not sure what it is. I manually check my mail anyways so its not a problem for me.

Posted by: Dekkerd

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Originally Posted by Omega2008

Its something to do with there server....I don't know why...If it can do it with another POP mail account but not the other than it has to be there server.....not sure what it is. I manually check my mail anyways so its not a problem for me.

Ah, but thats letting pocket outlook off too easy.

Take this example.
my laptop checks gmail every 15 minutes. Say it downloads 2 messages, but I'm not around to look at them. Gmail will not serve those messages up via POP again, so they appear as "read" via POP access. When the laptop checks again 15 minutes later, it will retain those 2 messages for me to read when I get home.

The same scenario on the phone doesn't work. The phone will delete those unread messages, with out leaving a trace. It uses the message state on the server, not giving you the option to override it.

Since I have a yahoo account with POP access, my workaround is just to forward those messages when I'm using my phone as my sole email source.

On a somewhat similar topic, has anyone with mpx/5600 been able to sign on to gmail via pocket IE?

Posted by: Omega2008

When I download messages from Yahoo, they are left on the server, but when I get home and download them via Outlook the computer it will download the messages again (the same ones I downloaded to my phone) then they will be deleted of the server, but If I check my mail on my computer via outlook then they won't be left on the server...why you may ask? because I set it up that way. Simply put if I download 10 messages on my phone read them but don't delete them but then download them to my computer via Outlook, then do a send and recieve on my phone...the messages disapear...why? because I deleted them off the server so when it synced up (send and recieve) it made the change to my phone.

I think when you download your messages via GMail on your phone they are automatically marked as read, so when it checks your mail again it deletes them and only downloads new messages (which you probably set it up to do in Options in Pocket Outlook) maybe you should change this field in you GMail options on the phone

Download the following messages:
change from Today's Messages, to All Messages or similar.

See if that fixes your problem.

Posted by: Dekkerd

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Already have it set that way actually.
Yahoo works fine, since they allow unlimited pop access, which they should, since we pay for it.
It's just frustrating that pocket outlook can't retain an unread message. I was hoping someone may have found a setting I hadn't seen, but oh well.

Any luck with web access to gmail though? I just get a constant reminder of switching from secure to unsecure, never actually resolves the page.

Posted by: Omega2008

I never tried......there is a wap site that you can go to to access your email from multiple email accounts....I forgot what its called but you can try PMing NineToez...he know the name of it he advicates it alot.