accessing older emails on iPhone?

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accessing older emails on iPhone?

Hi everybody,

I have a separate mail folder with important emails, some of them not recent but from e.g. last month. I would like to have access to all these mails on the iPhone but even when I change the Mail settings to Show 200 Recent Messages some of the old messages in this folder do not show up (as they are not recent enough).
Is there any trick that I can use to see them all?

Any help is much appreciated!

Stefan

MacMini, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Nov 18, 2008 11:28 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 22, 2008 10:32 AM in response to Stefan-London

Since you have an Exchange account, I believe there is a setting for an Exchange account with the iPhone to sync server stored mailboxes for a designated period of time, such as for the previous 30 days or all.

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Answer 2

Nov 21, 2008 10:01 AM in response to Allan Sampson

Sorry, I don't see this. At the bottom of each mail folder I can check for new (but not old) mails.
Am I missing something?

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Answer 3

Nov 21, 2008 10:16 AM in response to Stefan-London

This is an IMAP account?

At the bottom of the mailbox as in below the very last message in a mailbox that includes more than 200 messages - below message #200 in the mailbox is a Load More Messages selection.

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Answer 4

Nov 22, 2008 9:48 AM in response to Allan Sampson

Hi Allan,
Many thanks for your help.
I have checked my account settings. Account type is "Exchange". Don't know what exactly this means.
It is definitely not a POP account question as the emails are not downloaded to my computer.
(I guess your idea with the POP/IMAP account question was that the mails are downloaded to my desktop in which case the iPhone cannot detect them on the server any more)
But still, there is no selection "Load more messages" in the mail boxes.

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Answer 5

Nov 18, 2008 11:36 AM in response to Stefan-London

If you have more than 200 messages available in a mailbox, at the bottom of the mailbox should be a load more messages selection.

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Answer 6

Nov 23, 2008 11:33 AM in response to Allan Sampson

Brilliant! That worked. I found under the Exchange account settings "Mail days to sync" which lets you chose "1 day" up to "1 month" and even "no limit".
Many thanks, Allan!

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