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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.
Cheers
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.
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.
This is a really weird fix I found. I have an iPhone 6 and the same problem. iCloud doesn't have a "days to sync" feature so all you get is 150 messages downloaded to your phone, and in my case, not the 150 most recent messages ..... HOWEVER ...... if you scroll down to bottom of your email list and attempt to scroll further, the little wheel "checking for updates" starts spinning again and adds more emails to your folder. I had to do this several times and it's a bit of a pain because each time it adds more of your emails to your iPhone folder, it places you randomly somewhere in your email list meaning you once again have to scroll down to the bottom of the list and try to scroll further again. After a few of these "scrolls", all of my emails were in my iPhone folder, not just 150. If you attempt to scroll further up from the top of the email list, the little wheel "checking for updates" will start spinning again but no new emails will be added to your folder so ............. down to the bottom of the list if you want this to work. I know have 60 folders (some with 1000+ emails) downloaded onto my iPhone from iCloud.
try "Offline Mail".
it will sync your IMAP emails on the background and will store them locally on your iPhone / iPad.
you can then access them and search them offline.
Hi Gregory,
I have connected my Mail with Outlook on line (office365) through exchange. However, I see nowhere in exchange properties how to access this ""mail days to sync" parameter.
Thanks in advance,
Christian
All email available offline
