Outlook to iPhone Sync

Kobe401

When you set up pop or imap email on your iphone it can only download or see what is on the email server. Syncing your email on the iphone with your computer does not sync the actual email itself, just the email settings.

Now the nature of pop3 is that all the email and folders are housed locally on your computer and not on the email server. So, any folders that you have in your email are seen only by your computer and nothing else. Also, when you download email to your computer the copy that is on the email server is erased. This is done to save space on the email server.

Now, if you have an imap email like .mac or gmail, you can create folders in the email and that change is reflected back to the server. So, you can access the imap email from multiple devices to see the exact same email, and any changes done from any computer is reflected back to the email server so the changes can take effect on all other devices you access that email account with.

So, in essence the folders that you have on your computer with your pop3 account, will not sync to the iphone.

Hope this explanation helps out.

Kobe401

No, you cannot create folders on the iphone.

What you might want to do is sign up for a yahoo or gmail account.
They are free and you get a good idea what you can do with an imap account.

This way, you could forward your email to your gmail or yahoo account for your iphone and still have the copy on your pop server for your computer.

Hope this helps.