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I always delete my emails after reading them on my p900 but then 2hrs latter the p900 automatically connects re - downloads all the emails and theirs like 2 new ones and about 35 headers from old emails i have already read. IS their no way to have it set so my p900 only downloads UNread emails?
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Posted: 2004-04-22 12:59:39
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thats very strange, normally if you delete them from your phone then the next time you connect to the server they should be deleted from there too
as it has never failed for me in the way you describe, are you sure you are deleting them correctly on your phone?
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Posted: 2004-04-22 13:11:04
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I have tweaked my server to not to delete emails but to just store them as unread. As i only really use the p900 to read my emails not to send. As the p900 has very little internal memory it would fill up very quickly if i used it to store all the emails i needed.
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Posted: 2004-04-22 13:14:32
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ah! well thats an important piece of the story.
then to answer your original question, no, unfortunately there is no setting to only download unread email
indeed I was not even aware that read/unread status was stored on the server? if I read a mail on my P900 and then later download it to my pc its shows agani as unread
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Posted: 2004-04-22 13:19:49
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Status is stored server side when you use imap, but it is ignored by this mail client. Just one of the many problems that make it completely useless other than as a novelty/marketing device.
Only way I've found to actually use a UIQ phone (yes its a symbian/uiq application, nothing SE specific) for reading email is to set up a single special pop3 account with extensive server side rules and essentially have select parts of your daily mail flow forwarded to this account. Hopefully with all spam, html only mails, large attachements etc filtered out.
If you can live with using stone age crap like pop3, this is a fairly painless solution once its working.
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Posted: 2004-04-22 13:50:26
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ok, thats interesting. I have never come across an imap server.
I'm not sure its just UIQ though that doesn't use the status. I just quickly ran through a pretend setup on my iPAQ and added an IMAP4 mail account and it doesn't offer any possibility to download unread mail either. the only options are headers only or full message up to a specified size
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Posted: 2004-04-22 13:57:56
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why is pop3 dated? is IMAP4 or SMTP better?
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Posted: 2004-04-22 20:44:30
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Smtp is used for sending... you always use smtp along with either imap or pop3, not instead of. Imap is a remote folder mail protocol where everything is kept on the server, all you download is lists of headers contained in your folders (and actual mail content on demand). If you check your mail with 2 clients from 2 different hosts and read one message on host 1, you will see that message change to status read on host 2. Delete it on host 2 and you'll see it disappear from host 1.
Imap clients typically (at least ideally) use a maintained connection and can receive notifications on server side events (such as incoming mail, deleted/changed/moved/renamed mails or folders etc). That way no periodic polling is necessary.
The imap option in the epoc mail client behaves more like a simple pop3 client however.
The scenario I described before sort of assumes you manage your own mail server(s) and can configure them as you like (why people put up with unencrypted pop3 and unauthenticated smtp is beyond me).
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Posted: 2004-04-22 21:44:20
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This is a complete mystery to me but looks very important and something I would like to know more about!!
My email is pop3 and therefore unsecure. How would I change to the imap secure form?
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Posted: 2004-04-22 22:22:07
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If your server support IMAP access you can configure the connection type to IMAP on your P900.
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Posted: 2004-04-23 00:21:05
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