Mobile E-Mail

RichDRichD Essex, UK
edited March 2009 in Science & Tech
Howdy Peeps.

I am quite chuffed with myself as I have managed to set up my Sony Ericson C902 mobile to work with my yahoo email. There are a couple of things that I cant fathom out though. Firstly, When I delete an email from my phone it deletes it from the Mail server. Can anyone suggest how I can set it up so that it only deletes the local copy? Next I have set it to look for mail every five minutes but for some reason it insists on only checking when I tell it too??

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited March 2009
    This is all very, very dependent on the phone and its mail client. Hopefully someone else has a C902.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited March 2009
    The second one I'm not sure, but if you're doing this through POP or a similar protocol to "forward" your mail onto your phone, you might need to tell Yahoo OR your phone what to do with messages you delete. I know I've seen options where you have to tell the email server to keep the message in the inbox as well as send one on to you, and options on the phone where you can tell it to not delete any server copies.

    Check your email and/or forwarding options in both locations.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited March 2009
    If it's POP, it doesn't matter what you do on the phone.

    If it's IMAP, it will delete it from both the phone and the server unless you can control reconciliation priority.
  • RichDRichD Essex, UK
    edited March 2009
    It is POP.

    I fidled around for ages. Rang Vodafone who were as useful as a choclate teapot then had a theory. I created a new yahoo acount (mymobile@) and set my normal acount to auto forward to the mobile account. The POP server was set to mymobile and the SMTP was set to my normal. This worked a treat until I realised that the autoforward feature literally forwarded them straight on and they never appeared in my normal inbox!!!

    I thin found a set up your mobile feature that was quite well hidden on yahoo. Basically you put your mobile number, service provider, phone make and model in to yahoo. It txts you an authorisation code then sends you the email account. and low an behold it seems to work fine.

    I am now a mobile icrontarian!!!

    Only down side is that I am constantly connected to the net so my battery life has been cut in half.
  • AlexDeGruvenAlexDeGruven Wut? Meechigan Icrontian
    edited March 2009
    This is why I love GMail so much. I have my WinMo phone hit the IMAP every 15 minutes, and then Exchange sync my calendar and contacts (until they allow exchange sync for e-mail, then there's no turning back). Works a treat for me.

    Good to see you got it working. Having e-mail access at all times is a great thing, and I won't live without it nowadays.
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