Does iPhone keep only the most recent 50 or so emails on phone?

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Does iPhone keep only the most recent 50 or so emails on phone?

I am new to iPhone - just got the 3G S.

In the settings for Mail, Contacts, Calendars, there is an option "Show XX Recent Messages."

Does iPhone delete old messages in excess of the 50 (or whatever number is set) messages from the iPhone? If not, where do these messages go, and how do I delete them?

I am using POP3, not IMAP.

I know my messages are still on the server because I set it that way.

There's a trash icon in the Mail app, but using it actually keeps the trashed message on my phone longer than if I didn't use it.

I've set "Ask Before Deleting" to "On", but I haven't been asked to delete any messages yet even though many e-mails have vanished....

Please let me know what's going on.

iPhone 3G S, iPhone OS 3.0

Posted on Jun 23, 2009 10:40 PM

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Allan Lee1 Author

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Jun 24, 2009 1:54 AM in response to Allan Lee1

OK, I just read page 149-150 of the User Guide, which says the following:

"Choose “Mail, Contacts, Calendars,” choose an account, then do one of the following...

"To set how long before messages are removed permanently from Mail on iPhone, tap Advanced and tap Remove, then choose a time: Never, or after one day, one week, or one month."

First of all, it would be much clearer if the heading is "Delete Messages" instead of "Deleted Messages", which makes it look like only deleted messages are removed after specified time.

Also, does that mean if I set Mail app to show 50 recent messages, and I have 1,000 messages in the past week, I can only see 50 messages even though the other 950 messages are still on my iPhone? How do I access them, only through Spotlight?

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spettit

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Jun 24, 2009 1:54 PM in response to Allan Lee1

I have related issue/concern. When my POP account reaches 200 messages in the inbox (which happens very quickly) it stops updating/adding more recent messages until I delete some of the old ones, at which time newer ones are downloaded. I'd really prefer to see the most recent messages and have the old ones FIFO so I'm hoping that I've done something wrong, or that there's a method for solving this.

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