Posts Tagged ‘imap

If you sync IMAP mail account settings from your computer to iPhone or iPod touch, and the IMAP folders on your computer are all shown under your Inbox folder, then it might not work as expected on the device.

You may know that your e-mail client uses either the Post Office Protocol (POP) or Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) standard to retrieve your messages.

You may know that your e-mail client uses either the Post Office Protocol (POP) or Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) standard to retrieve your messages.

Email accounts that use the push method for message retrieval enable you to have email messages delivered directly to you as soon as the message is received by your email provider instead of checking periodically or manually for new messages. On iPhone or iPod touch, push email is supported for the following email account types: MobileMe Microsoft Exchange Yahoo! Other email accounts such as POP, IMAP, AOL or Gmail accounts do not support push message retrieval on iPhone or iPod touch but can instead be setup to fetch mail at specified intervals or manually when the Mail application is opened. Note: A Wi-Fi connection is required to send and receive email on iPod touch.

When enabling SSL for POP and IMAP on a Mac OS X v10.6 Mail Server, SSL encryption may not work if the server uses a chained certificate. The steps below explain how to enable the ssl_ca_file key for SSL.

With iPhone OS 3.0 for your iPhone or iPod touch, you can now search information contained on your device and mail downloaded from your mail accounts and servers: IMAP mail server Exchange server Yahoo! Google AOL MobileMe

Filed under: Tips and tricks , Troubleshooting , iPhone 101 There’s no denying it: locally caching messages in Gmail on the iPhone (via the storage capability in HTML 5 , similar to Google Gears) is fun and good for you, especially if you don’t connect to your Gmail via IMAP in the regular iPhone Mail application. Unfortunately, if the local copy of your mail gets funky, things can become difficult and much less fun. John F. sent in this handy tip for resolving issues with cached Gmail; his suggestion is a quick dive into the iPhone’s Settings app, then navigating to the Safari preferences to clear out the local database that stores the cached mail. You may have to wait a bit the next time you connect to Gmail in Mobile Safari as the messages are re-downloaded, but any wacky cruft should be gone

Filed under: Software , Tips and tricks , Friday Favorite What’s free, flexible, easy-to-use but powerful and can handle a wide variety of file types? Our good friend, TextEdit , an app that ships with every Mac. TextEdit is, of course, a simple text editing tool like Notepad or WordPad on Windows. But there’s a lot more to “simple text editing” that you might imagine, especially when TextEdit connects to services and other apps

Filed under: Tips and tricks , Mac 101 Have you ever needed more room on your screen? Or have you ever needed a way to organize all the stuff you are working on with your Mac? Mac OS 10.5, aka Leopard , debuted a feature called Spaces : a way of creating extra screens on your Mac


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