I use the Mail app on my iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 16.4.1 to view my Yahoo/SBCGlobal email account.
Emails downloaded to my phone don't appear in the Windows 11 Mail program on my laptop.
I've looked at all the setting in the Mail app on my phone and there is no option that I can find to tell it to leave a copy on the server.
iPhone 14 Pro
You must set up the account as an IMAP account, rather than POP3. To do that you must go to Settings/Mail/Accounts, tap on the account then remove it. Then add it back; by default when you add it back it SHOULD configure automatically as IMAP. If it doesn’t contact support at the mail provider’s website. You may need to do the same on your computer if it isn’t then you need to do the same on your computer.
You must set up the account as an IMAP account, rather than POP3. To do that you must go to Settings/Mail/Accounts, tap on the account then remove it. Then add it back; by default when you add it back it SHOULD configure automatically as IMAP. If it doesn’t contact support at the mail provider’s website. You may need to do the same on your computer if it isn’t then you need to do the same on your computer.
Ah, okay. Switch the account from POP to IMAP. POP downloads. IMAP does not.
Lawrence Finch wrote:
Yes, you will lose the emails on your phone, because they have been deleted from the server. If it isn’t many you can forward them to a different email account.
Or select all and move them to a folder somewhere back on the server. In the mail message view, tap Edit, then slide your finger down the selection circles in the column of messages in the iPhone. Scroll and slide a chunk, Move, and re-Edit and select the next chunk of messages.
Mail usually does that automatically, leaving the message in the Sent folder, or some similarly-named folder.
If you want a second copy of the message, you can use the Settings > Mail > Always BCC Self setting.
What to do? Make sure the mail client for the Windows system is looking in the Sent folder.
To clarify, my question is about incoming mail.
If I use my phone to check my email and it, for example, downloads my weekly work schedule email, then go onto my laptop and open the mail program that comes with Windows 11, that email with my work schedule isn’t there.
The iPhone Mail app is apparently deleting downloaded emails from the mail server. The Windows Mail program does not.
Thanks. I’ll try it.
If I delete the account from my phone and re-add it, won’t I lose the emails that have already been downloaded to my phone?
Or does deleting the account preserve the data on my phone?
Yes, you will lose the emails on your phone, because they have been deleted from the server. If it isn’t many you can forward them to a different email account.
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