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inkman996:
Thanks Pierre I have to admit I really do not know the difference between POP and IMAP, not to mention I am apple illiterate. I did do some more playing around in the settings and I think I now have it figured out. Tho I still hate the built in email app. I wish I had a little more functionality such as organizing the views, message rules, and group contacts. Will search the app store and see what is available.
blue moon:
--- Quote from: Inkman996 on January 24, 2012, 09:03:26 AM ---Thanks Pierre I have to admit I really do not know the difference between POP and IMAP, not to mention I am apple illiterate. I did do some more playing around in the settings and I think I now have it figured out. Tho I still hate the built in email app. I wish I had a little more functionality such as organizing the views, message rules, and group contacts. Will search the app store and see what is available.
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just as you described, the difference between POP and IMAP is that POP downloads the emails to the device reading it. Can't remember (it's been almost 15 years since I used POP) if there is an option to save the msg on the server, and even if there is it will not synchronize with the next device that checks for new email.
IMAP on the other, keeps everything on the server (some clients you can configure to store the drafts, deleted msgs and few other things locally, but your main folders remain on the server). This way if you read the msg at home and it changes the status to read, when you get to work it will have the same status. In other words it remembers what you have done on another computer.
When you are setting up a new email client all you have to do is select IMAP and enter the IMAP "send" and "receive" settings (which are normally listed at the same place where you get the POP setting).
pierre
mk162:
with IMAP, it will delete your message from the server when you delete it from your inbox.
think of it as synchronizing your inbox to the server.
ScreenFoo:
By default, POP will download and delete the message on the server but I can't remember using a client that didn't support keeping the original. (If live mail supports it, it would be pretty sad if Apples *nix clients didn't... they have plenty of great code they're free to bite on... )
Catnhat:
--- Quote from: Inkman996 on December 27, 2011, 01:51:09 PM ---
Anyways does any users here no if there is any apps for excel documents? I will need to work with spreadsheets and send as PC compatible, is it possible open office works on the IPAD?
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OnLive Desktop app. Launched about 2 weeks ago. Runs Excel, Word, Powerpoint. Looks & runs just like a scaled down version of Win 7 on your iPad. And they give you 2GB of storage for free.
I hate the email app too. (could never get it to sync right) Finally gave up on it and switched to the GMail app. Multiple accounts are now forwarded to a gmail account. It syncs my iphone, ipad and any computer I log into Gmail from. I just have to remember to select what account I want GMail to use when I send/reply if it's different than my personal account I have set as default.
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