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Q: How do you change ios 8 mail default from imap to pop?


I scan e-mails on the road with my iPhone but only respond to emergent ones.  I work all non-emergent e-mail at home on my PC.   With iOS 8 software, my iPhone e-mail defaults to IMAP, which causes any e-mails read/opened on my phone to be automatically deleted from my PC's incoming mail.  That may be fine for some, but not for me... and I'm guessing a lot of other folks who have the same parallel mail arrangement.

 

My work-around is to archive all e-mails read, which I want to keep, and then resend them to myself when I get home.  What a bother.  With a pop account, all devices receive, send, and delete independently of each other.  That allows me to scan and delete unnecessary e-mails on the iPhone and work those I want to keep when I return home.  Yes, I have to delete unwanted e-mails again, but that is not a big deal.

 

The iOS software update needs to allow a pop, pop3, or IMAP incoming server option.  If it does, I'm unable to figure it out.

iPhone 5s, iOS 8

Posted on Oct 4, 2014 1:29 PM

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