jefboyardee
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jefboyardee
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Thanks, but if there is, I can’t find it. On the Options page for that account, I see Account name, Your name, Signature, Email check frequency (5 minutes up to 1 hour), Default account, Email notifications (in status bar), Select ringtone, Vibrate, and Incoming/Outgoing settings. None of these include what you’re describing, far as I can see.
Imap does not download email to your client. When you use Imap, your email stays on the server (unless you do some stuff with Offline).
You should not have needed to set up folders when you set up the IMAP account in OE. Once you put in all the proper stuff for the setup, OE should have gone out to Google and "collected" the email in the IMAP folders without you having to do anything.
POP3 differs in that email is downloaded from the server to your machine/phone. This is bad because it can take up precious memory on your phone. IMAP is better because the email actually resides on the Google servers. When you make a POP3 connection, typically, the email is MOVED from the server to your machine/phone. It then no longer exists on the server (unless you specifically tell it to keep a copy on the server).
One of the great advantages of IMAP is that you can check your email from many devices and since the email resides on the server, it will be "in sync" across all the IMAP clients.
I don't think OE is the best email client for GMail. I think you will find you are happier with either the email client in Opera or Thunderbird. If you move to Windows 7, you won't have OE anyway; it's been replaced with Windows Live Mail, which is another topic altogether.
I probably didn't help you any...or clear anything up.
You should not have needed to set up folders when you set up the IMAP account in OE. Once you put in all the proper stuff for the setup, OE should have gone out to Google and "collected" the email in the IMAP folders without you having to do anything.
POP3 differs in that email is downloaded from the server to your machine/phone. This is bad because it can take up precious memory on your phone. IMAP is better because the email actually resides on the Google servers. When you make a POP3 connection, typically, the email is MOVED from the server to your machine/phone. It then no longer exists on the server (unless you specifically tell it to keep a copy on the server).
One of the great advantages of IMAP is that you can check your email from many devices and since the email resides on the server, it will be "in sync" across all the IMAP clients.
I don't think OE is the best email client for GMail. I think you will find you are happier with either the email client in Opera or Thunderbird. If you move to Windows 7, you won't have OE anyway; it's been replaced with Windows Live Mail, which is another topic altogether.
I probably didn't help you any...or clear anything up.
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
You replaced some of my confusion with more esoteric confusion, and I feel smarter for it... thanks. My ISP uses POP3 so if I understand anything you said, it was copying everything over to my Optimus, except it seemed like it was doing so more than once. I ended up letting it come in, then deleting, but not deleting the deletions for now, and it appears to have settled down (knock on wood).
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
Finally found it, thanks. Funny thing is, when it was downloading everything, none of the sync options were checked, new or otherwise. Anyway, I guess it
jefboyardee
Extreme Android User
Still weird, even after telling Outlook to leave messages on server. Read an email on phone today, marked it as unread just on case, got home, checked for it on Outlook. Not there. Checked phone again, wasn’t there anymore either. I guess I have to remove the account from the phone just to keep messages from disappearing...