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Old 01-20-2008, 01:43 AM   #11 of 21
DavidJ
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Re: iPhone 1.1.3 deleting mail off my server? WTF?


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Originally Posted by Sam Posten
Its not a screw up, you are misunderstanding the fundamental POINT of IMAP versus POP3. IMAP is designed from the start to synchronize accross all devices. Now, I agree, that making all previous POP3 accounts switch to IMAP would be really confusing to people, but I dont think thats what they did, they just made the default IMAP now.

Well my previous POP3 account did get switched to IMAP and yes it was confusing (and I think a bit of a screw-up ). I am trying to decide if I am going to keep the IMAP functionality. I understand its benefits, but my mobile e-mail workflow is similar to Ron's and POP3 works well.
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