Leaving Email on POP Server

[Jerry Raia]

Originally Posted by Mike Temporale

8O How many messages do you have in your inbox. I've got about 200 or so. So I just pull the last 3 days. If it's older than that, it needs more attention than I'll give it when I'm mobile.

I'm pretty organized. I have stuff pulled off and put into personal folders for archival purposes. My inbox at any given moment rarely has more than a couple items in it. Calendar and Tasks I leave on the server. 1000's of items there. :shocked!:

[Jerry Raia]

Originally Posted by Mike Temporale

8O How many messages do you have in your inbox. I've got about 200 or so. So I just pull the last 3 days. If it's older than that, it needs more attention than I'll give it when I'm mobile.

I'm pretty organized. I have stuff pulled off and put into personal folders for archival purposes. My inbox at any given moment rarely has more than a couple items in it. Calendar and Tasks I leave on the server. 1000's of items there. :shocked!:

[Mike Temporale]

I don't use tasks. My inbox is my task list. I guess that's the difference as to why my inbox is so much loarger than yours and your tasks are larger than mine.

[Jerry Raia]

Interesting how everyone does things a little different. Good topic for a Thought post I'm thinking.

[Hardrock28]

I have read alot of postings regarding the smart phones/Q's and leaving messages on the server.

I realize that deleting from the phone deletes from the server so basically most of us just read them and leave them in our inbox on the phone. What happens though after time when there are literally hundreds/thousands of emails on the phone. In other words, in my case I am a remote Lotus Notes user. I have the Q setup for POP and it is working just fine now. On Lotus when I read something important from my company I file it away in a folder within Notes on my laptop. Well since that email was not deleted theoretically it will still show up on the phone...if that is the cast eventually I am going to have thousands of emails on the phone...any thoughts comment?

Thanks

[Jerry Raia]

Since you have put it in Notes you now have it stored offline. Why keep it on the phone? This makes a good case for IMAP email.

[ifonline]

I actually like the way WM5 (BlackJack) works with regards to e-mail. I have my work address set to check every 15 minutes and to download everything/entire message. So, I get a message on my phone. I decide that I don't want to keep it and I mark it for deletion. Next sync, the e-mail is gone permanently (even from the server). However, if I decide to keep the message, I do nothing.

When I get to my desk, I check e-mail and download everything. Then, on next sync, my phone realizes that the e-mail is no longer on the server and removes the stray copies from my phone. Brilliant! For me, anyway!

[Hardrock28]

Switched to IMAP4 and it works beautifully with Lotus Notes now...except...and I can't even believe this:

1) The menu soft key on the right below the screen is screwed up now. When I hit it only about 1/2 the time it actually works, the other times it types the #2!?!?! So when I am in my email account to send/receive and hit the menu key to get there it types a 2 on the screen...and sometimes even deletes the freaking email that was highlighted.

2) The up position on the middle wheel about 1/2 the time now types a 9 on the screen!?!?

I am baffled and about at the end of the rope. Now that I finally have everything working as I needed it, the freaking keys are screwing up on me...anyone else seen this or can recommend anything?

Originally Posted by Jerry Raia

Since you have put it in Notes you now have it stored offline. Why keep it on the phone? This makes a good case for IMAP email.

[Jerry Raia]

Wow that is bizarre. I have never seen that behavior. Maybe try removing and resetting up the account?

[Hardrock28]

Originally Posted by Jerry Raia

Wow that is bizarre. I have never seen that behavior. Maybe try removing and resetting up the account?

I suppose but the right menu key issue doesn't only happen within email accounts. If I hit it to get to contacts, sometimes it works now and sometimes it types the #2!?!? None of this was happening until today...right after firmware upgrade and setup of email account.

Frankly I am getting pretty tired of the quirks and oversights on this phone...like pasting numbers into contacts and they don't format...the convoluted calendar setup, etc. I could live with those things if the phone was actually working as needed for email at this point but now that is causing problems. I just emailed Verizon regarding these issues which I am sure will get me referred over to Motorola or something but I asked if they had seen these issues, could offer any suggestions and what my recourse is if they can't. I use this for business and it is really going to kill me on travel if I have these issues.

I am curious if they have anykind of credit/swap out program for disatisfied customers. I'd even pay more for a Treo as I had before as long as I got he credit for what I paid for this, provided they can't resolve this stuff.

[Jerry Raia]

I had a Q for quite a few months and even after the ROM upgrade I never saw the issue you are having.