How to transfer emails to a new iPhone? (POP3)

scroobyplex wrote:

That'd be the manual of iOS 7, which doesn't exist. Same like with Windows, it also has no manual, only a very basic help. There is this http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1595/en_US/ipad_user_guide.pdf It explains what iCloud can do, but not what it can't do and it just does not say like "syncing mails is only possible with your icloud.com mail account".

My Nissan Murano's owner's also doesn't say that it can't convert into a submersible vehicle. Should I take that as an implication that because a potential feature is not expressly described as 'unavailable', that then means it is actually available?

Creating folders in Outlook on the computer has nothing to do with your phone. None of the folder structure that you create in Outlook on a PC has ever been transferred to the iPhone in Mail. That is just how POP mail works. You have also never been able to create additional folders in a POP mail account on the phone to move any of your mail to for structure purposes on the phone.

You also describe exactly how POP mail works, which is to store mail locally on the computer, which you seem to like. There is no problem with that, however once it is on the local machine, that is where it stays. There is no way to copy mail from your Outlook and move it to the phone. And as you may have already read, the mail messages are not included in the iPhone backup, just the account info. This is the limitation with POP again, since the messages are already on the local device.

I understand your frustration in no being able to make an image of your phone and move it to another device. The iPhone, and no other phone also, are not like a PC or Mac and allow that type of backup. The iPhone backup, both on iCloud and it iTunes, are designed to be as streamlined as possible to take up the least amount of room. Therefore they do not backup certain materials. Your music and apps are not backed up since they are already in iTunes and such as that. You do have the option to provide feedback to Apple if you would like to see mailbox content be saved as part of the backup by going to www.apple.com/feedback and click on the appropriate link.

To address this question is to understand how IMAP mail works. When it syncs all of the devices, it allows you to access the mail from any one of your mail clients, example more than one computer, your mobile device, etc., and you can see all of your mail, your folder structure, and moved messages. Yes, the mail is "saved" on the server, but as you know, you cannot always access a computer to get to the server, that is why it is synced to all devices so you can see anything, anytime.

TJBUSMC1973, you got it wrong. What I meant is that it everywhere says "sync your mail across devices", but forgets to mention "only when using Apple's own icloud.com mail servers". That's the point! Nothing else.

Coming to your Nissan Murano...Wouldn't you be f***ed up, if your car retailer tells you like "Oh, your new car can even fly" and you get it delivered to your door and you see it has no wings and complain to the dealer and he's like "well, I didn't say when"?

KiltedTim wrote:

Wow... is this what the public schools turn out these days... God help us.

What? Have you just been standing in front of a mirror? Pal, I'm 44. Most likely older than you.

Hate to burst your bubble, pal. You were still in elementary school when I was wearing a uniform.

It is not only when using Apple's own iCloud mail servers.

The same can be done with any other email account that supports IMAP or Exchange account access, not with an antiquated POP account. POP account access was the first type of email account access with an email client on a computer when the overwhelming majority of computer users had one desktop computer or access to only one desktop computer. Well before there were laptops and long before there were smart phones. A POP account is designed to be accessed with a single email client only. What is available with an Apple iCloud account in regards to email account access - syncing email across multiple computers and devices is also available with any other email account that supports IMAP or Exchange account access.

There are a number of free email accounts that support IMAP or Exchange account access including Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail. Some ISPs now offer IMAP account access with the email account they provide in addition to POP account access - the ISPs that have moved into the 21st century.

Apple wants you to switch to iCloud. If they own your email address, it's one more, big tentacle.

I have found Apple product users very sheep like. Every complaint that I have ever put forth is met with a number of stupid answers about how Apple is right in their implementation and that nothing else makes sense.

It is quite annoying conversing with this kind of mindset.

By the way, I am looking through the site to find that exact answer. As others have indicated, I can move all of my POP emails from any computer to any computer and from any program to that same program yet in the Apple world, well it seems they forgot about the word "portability".

It seems that portability only matters when it is so suits them.

BTW, my iPad Mini Retina with iOS 9.2 crashes WAY MORE than my Android tablet running Android 2.2.

I can use all technologies, just hate the my-way-or-the-highway attitude of Apple and it's user base.