Email is coming to my Iphone, but not MAIL on my computer

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Email is coming to my Iphone, but not MAIL on my computer

Hello All-
I am seeking help, I am very very frustrated at this point. Up until yesterday somehow my mail account and mail on Iphone was somehow messed up. I went to the Apple store and they said they fixed it. I am receiving email on both my Iphone and the MAIL account on my phone, but I am receiving emails on my phone that are not coming into the Mail account on my computer. I was wondering if someone can help me figure out how to fix this? My email account is thru Gmail, and currently I have it set up as a POP account. Thanks for the help.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jan 3, 2008 3:09 PM

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Ansuz82

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Jan 3, 2008 3:11 PM in response to BHoward711

BHoward711 wrote:

My email account is thru Gmail, and currently I have it set up as a POP account. Thanks for the help.
Thats why. POP accounts only allow the mail to be downloaded once. Best to switch to IMAP:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=75726

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Jan 3, 2008 3:39 PM in response to Ansuz82

I understand where you are coming from... but I had it set up this way for about 2 months before my Mail stopped working all together, and it worked just fine and downloaded Mail to both sources. Any other ideas? Do I have to delete all of my Folders in mail if I switch to IMAP?

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Ansuz82

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Jan 3, 2008 3:41 PM in response to BHoward711

BHoward711 wrote:
I understand where you are coming from... but I had it set up this way for about 2 months before my Mail stopped working all together, and it worked just fine and downloaded Mail to both sources. Any other ideas? Do I have to delete all of my Folders in mail if I switch to IMAP?

No, no deletion required.

If you POP mail was working like that before that is very interesting as it shouldn't have been... IMAP is the best solution for multiple email clients accessing one account.

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Jan 3, 2008 9:58 PM in response to Ansuz82

POP accounts can let multipal computers download the same messages as long as you have the advanced settings set properly.

You need to make sure both sides are set to NOT remove the message from the server for a period of time if ever. My iPhone is set to NEVER remove messages from the server and my MacBook Pro is also set to NEVER remove mail from the server, only my main Mac is set to remove messages and it set to only remove after one week. The problem is that the iPhone is still removing it anyway as is the Mail on my MacBook now even though it didn't before that I remember... I know when using my two Mac's it worked as expected.

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