I would like to know how to access all my email messages with Apple Mail app when offline with iOS 8.4. Without the use of a 3rd party app.
I need to have all my mail (every single message) stored locally. I have searched this and every forum under the sun with no luck. This use to be a setting "Number of messages you want to download" but it has gone missing.
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if you setup your account as regular mail account it behaves precisely the way you want. That is why there is no switch anymore.
If you setup as exchange you will find setting that says "mail days to sync" in settings mail contacts and calendars when you click on the account.
Hotmail for example allows to choose me that feature.
It's a .me account set up as imap.
I did the message test and everything behaves as it should. I attached a snapshot of my OSX mail bar so you can see the folder structure.
So you know there is about 30 more folders there you can't see. It can be 1 message to 500+ messages in any given folder. As the folders were being populated on my iPad they always maxed at 150 for the folders that have more than that.
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Thank you gregory202
This seems to work as how I described with one downside. It pops a message up on my other devices saying I have now lost continuity. And it did. Whatever I would do on my iPad was not be reflected on my other devices.
I have a .me account and logging in via iCloud is really how I need to do this so when jumping devices it is all the same.
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Continuity and email sync are two completely different animals (if you will). Email sync is done on the server and continuity in your house on the same wifi. Continuity will never work offline (in its current design), the whole point is to have full bluetooth and wifi blast between devices.
There must be something wrong - just like I said before there should be no restriction - especially by number. What folders are you referring to and if it is inbox - make an experiment for me. Send yourself email and when it loads, see if any disappear. If one does - what account are you using, exchange, imap, pop - who is your provider?
Just ignore that. This was just a snapshot from my macbook to give you an idea of the folder structure. On my Mac is just locally stored archive.
Point being I have roughly 40 folders with messages ranging fro 1-500+ messages. I need all those on my iPad. It currently only allows max 150 for any given folder.
And just in case again. It's a .me account set-up as map in the iPad .
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Just ignore that. This was just a snapshot from my macbook to give you an idea of the folder structure. On my Mac is just locally stored archive.
You can't ignore it - once you removed folders from icloud and stored them locally it is not going to sync by IMAP anymore. So if those folders do show up you only see them because of continuity and looks like continuity has limit of 150. You really want to use IMAP to do that.
1. To check what folders on the server to go to www.icloud.com and sign in. What you see in there is what suppose to be on ipad.
2. To move your folders back
https://www.hamilton.edu/its/rc/how-to-move-your-local-folders-into-your-imap-ac count
Yes I'm aware of that. I'm only concerned with the folders on the iCloud drive. I do not wish to access the archives. Sorry for not clarifying. Should have not used that but I was nowhere near the iPad at the time.
Anyway still need to resolve or find a work around for the 150 message cap on these folders.
So we finally came to an actual question - you put mail in icloud drive and would like to access that mail on ipad, correct?
If you want your mail synced by IMAP, put it back on the server - as simple as that.
As long as you do not see it in icloud.com it will not sync.
Essentially yes.
Let's say I had my computer out on a plane. I could offline view any message that is on the iCloud drive because it also stores all those messages locally.
Now if I do that same thing offline with my iPad I can only view a handful of those same messages cause it does not store them locally. It does this to save space on your iPad of course. But I don't care about the space cause I need all my mail.
We are getting there 😉
The problem is that it stops being mail when you take it off IMAP server. So I am going to accentuate, you want to have it as mail keep it in mail. One of the posts above gives a link how to move folders. Don't forget the way to verify what is suppose to be available is to check icloud.com. Also you have to be online first to sync and only then you can access offline. If you make changes offline they will not be uploaded until you online. If you are offline and you see changes on other device they will disappear as soon as you leave same wifi network- cause that was continuity and not IMAP.
To be honest I am not sure we are getting there, but we certainly try. 😉
Right. And I'm fully aware of how it goes with the online/offline and making changes. And I do not want to do the folder moving. Begging for all kinds of issues with my other devices when doing that.
I have found Altamail. I know I want to avoid using something other than apple iOS mail but it looks like I have no choice. This app populates all folders locally on the iPad as soon as I open that folder (so yes I have open all folders in order for them to download their content).
Altamail is really just a band aid or temp work around for now. I will keep searching.
Thanks for all the help.
I am afraid that you are missing something, or I am. It should not matter what app. it is a server you depend upon. So if emails are not visible on icloud.com site, no way that I am aware any app will make them visible on every device offline - maybe on one device. But if it works for you by all means enjoy.
That is what you're missing. I can not depend on a server when I'm on a plane and have no internet service.
So 100% of all my messages need to be available (In my device) offline at all times. Meaning the device (while online) downloads all available mails.
Then when I get off the plane my newly written messages send and my email updates with the server. I just need to now how to get all of the mails in my device.
You can make your emails available offline by setting up your mail account as pop account, but I do not recommend doing that because I can't predict consequences. If you really want to try - do that one one device and use it for a while until you are confident it works for you.
All you need to do is add a mail account and mistype your password on purpose, on one of the next screens you will be prompted to chose pop or imap.
All you do choose pop and save. It will place all of your email locally, but there is absolutely no guarantee that your changes after you done will be uploaded or any other behavior of IMAP will transfer to POP. I do not know any other way to make all of your emails available for editing offline.
My recommendation would be to leave everything the same and do your work in other text document. When you get back online just copy and paste your replies.
All email available offline
