Manually download emails from iPhone to Windows Computer

You stated in your reply to the post that "the email accounts on the iPhone are all either Exchange, IMAP or POP3", which is untrue in my case. I have smtp for one of my three e-mail accounts ( two gmail and one AOL). My issue is of course with my AOL and I have searched blogs and software for a way to transfer and/or backup emails from the iPhone to a PC with no such luck so far. This would be my only option because with smtp the option you gave would not apply, correct???

FYI I cannot remember my aol password and my iphone has my aol password on file but on my pc the security question and alternate e-mail will not work, so that is way I won't to transfer or backup that account periodically with my PC.

thanks for any help in this matter, nick

SMTP is the protocol used to SEND mail. IMAP and POP3 are methods used to download mail from the server.

OK, that makes since so are you saying that even with AOL it is either IMAP or POP3? If so, where would that be listed on an iPhone 4...when you go to incoming mail settings it gives you: PASSWORD / MD5 CHALLENGE-RESPONSE / NTLM / HTTP MD5 DIGEST. Which to be honestly I have no idea what any of it means. I guess my main question, if your privy to this knowledge, if I am using AOL mail and cannot access my account via PC/MAC and have to soley access on my iPhone...Is there a way to transfer/backup emails from my iPhone to my PC, with either a downloaded program or through certain settings???? thanks for the help!!!!

So, is it possible to download emails on my iphone, and transfer them to my Mac (i.e. Outlook), or write an email in outlook and transfer it to the iphone?

If so can you explain to me how?

Thank you.

OK

1) sign up for a Gmail account

2) open the mail icon on iphone

3) Click edit on top right

4) Move the emails over to one of the Gmail folders

5) login to gmail on PC

6) using the select all function and forward it back to your email

7) There!! you now have the emails on your pc and you did it without forwarding each of them one by one.

If OP hasn't found a solution in the almost two years since this thread was last active, I suspect they no longer care.

Um... maybe you should try paying attention to the date stamps... This thread has been dead for nearly 2 years.

EJC79A wrote:

OK

1) sign up for a Gmail account

2) open the mail icon on iphone

3) Click edit on top right

4) Move the emails over to one of the Gmail folders

5) login to gmail on PC

6) using the select all function and forward it back to your email

7) There!! you now have the emails on your pc and you did it without forwarding each of them one by one.

Thanks EJC79A

Your instructions worked perfectly! However, rather than forward emails from Gmail I skipped the last steps 6 and 7. Instead, just setup Microsoft Outlook to download all emails directly from Gmail account.

Walk-through Instructions:

http://email.about.com/od/outlooktips/ss/Access_Gmail_with_Outlook_2002_or_Outlo ok_2003_Using_IMAP.htm

Perfect answer,EJC79A

thanks