sending (imap) email draft with attachment created on computer from iphone

Here's one situation:

I type up an email and attach an excel file to it, then save it as a draft (in my @me.com drafts).

The draft email is now visible in the drafts folder on all of my devices: apple mail on my computer that I originally used, my iphone mail drafts, and also by signing on to www.me.com and opening my mail drafts.

one problem is when you open up an email draft on me.com that was created on a computer mail.app, only to see the message body text lose all of its formatting and appear to be jumbled html.

My main concern / question is:
The email draft with attachment appears to be in tact on me.com and on the original computer, but NOT on the iphone. On the iphone, the attachment seems to disappear. Well, not disappear, because it gets replaced by a small rectangle with a blue question mark in it. Basically you cannot view the attachment on the iphone. When you try to send this draft from the iphone, it works, but with jumbled text & no attachment.

Does anyone have similar problems???

3g, iPhone OS 3.0, mobileme subscription, also using mail.app, mac osx 10.5.7

Posted on Jun 20, 2009 1:12 PM

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Sep 3, 2009 5:20 AM in response to shaloot

Yup! Thanks - I a ctually read it in Macworld on tube this morning!
That will solve a lot of problems
your experiments are very interesting and Hey! You got a draft fro
computer to iPhone! Please tell
me how ?

When I use sync, it puts computer sent folder on the iPhone, but not drafts!
And I don't wishbto be wet blanket but you aren't attaching excel any
more are you!!!!!

John

Sep 3, 2009 10:00 PM in response to Triple U Productions

do you know the difference between POP email and IMAP email? Search it and you will see that you need an IMAP email capable account to get drafts to "sync" to all of your devices & really anything you view / compose your email draft from.

when you said "when i use sync, it puts computer...." you mean actually plugging in the iphone & syncing in itunes, right? if so that will never put emails / drafts onto your iphone. all that itunes sync does is sync your ACCOUNTS & settings. Hope I've explained this well enough let me know if not.

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