This message has not been downloaded from the server.

i'm having the same problem--i hope it is fixed soon.

there is a free alta app the alta go is 4.99 but has a lot of features that I don't need. The free one is working great.

Apparently this is because the mail app has limited space to store messages (ie not infinite, fortunately).

Try deleting the oldest and biggest messages from your Sent folder and emptying the Trash folder. Does that help?

This problem has nothing to do with space. It only occured after the last update. The Alta mail app is working ( I have the free version). Apple is certainly not what it used to be.

The problem has nothing to do with a space issue. I had 15 emails total with no attachments and a fully cleaned out trash and sent folder before the update after the update it started deleting the content of my emails and just leaving the message "This message has not been downloaded from the server." I still have no content in my trash or sent folder and after a day any emails I try and save delete the content and give the message "This message has not been downloaded from the server." again...

This same issued happed on the original 9.0 update but was some how fixed with the 9.01 update but popped up again on 9.1

HAD THE SAME PROBLEM. THE SOLUTION CAME FROM A STORE REPAIRING IPHONES HERE IN GREECE. ALL I HAD TO DO WAS TO GO TO OUTLOOK EXPRESS ( OR WHATEVER YOU USE FOR YOUR EMAIL ) , GO TO TOOLS--> ACCOUNTS--> PROPERTIES--> ADVANCED AND AT DELIVERY CHECK THE BOX "KEEP A COPY OF MESSAGE AT SERVER" , SO WHENEVER YOUR IPHONE RECALLS YOUR ACCOUNT , FINDS A COPY TO DOWNLOAD.

If that is an actual fix that is even worse, that means that with iOS 9.1 the Mail client on the mobile devices no longer stores a local copy of the message witch completely ***** and negates the whole reason I have my ipads.... I have my mail download onto my mobile devices and then nightly download from my desktop for permanent storage and to reduce the amount of server space used for my mail.... I will test it out over the next week and see what I find.

I check my aettings and I'm asking to keep messages for a month.

I checked the server and the messages I can't down load atr still there ... up to three months.

Any other ideas?

I didn't have the problem before, not until I went to iOS 9 (or it may have been 8). So it looks like a bug to me, that was introduced recently by Apple.

Ps don't forget to go to the original message and tick "I have this problem too" , this may raise its priority with Apple.

Well I have been testing it for the last few days by not checking my mail on my system or deleting it from the server and just checking my accounts from my iPads and iPhones. All my accounts are POP accounts except my gmail account and the same problem is happening messages just decided they want to disappear but some of the test is still in the message preview under the subject and its even worse after they are deleted from the server. But what I have noticed as well that just proves its not an issue of deleting them from the server is that the messages under the sent folder that were created on the iDevices that are stored locally are giving the same message as well. I was asked to forward a sent message I sent a week ago and said ok went to retrieve it and get that freaking stupid message "This message has not been downloaded from the server." This would not happen on a POP account maybe an IMAP account but if it was a server issue it would not affect a pop account not to mention I could still see the first line of the message in the preview of the message under the subject just as I can on the incoming mail.

The AltaMail app works great!!! This is a problem Apple doesn't seem to care about.

I'm trying Altamail right now with my Comcast POP email. I want to download all of my email for reading offline when I don't have an Internet connection and I thought Altamail did this. But if I turn off WiFi and open Altamail and try to read a message, I get a popup telling me there is no connection and I can't read it - it apparently does not download the message when updating, only when you read it. I do have preload turned on, too.

I uninstalled/reinstalled Altamail and now it seems to be downloading the full messages for offline reading.

Very frustrating. Even on mail that has been written on my iPad and sent via my POP server I'm getting "This message has not been downloaded from the server" ??? It is mail SENT! Not mail received. Anyone got any ideas???

Clearly, something is going on with the stock email app in 9.x. If you really need a workaround to get all email downloaded until this is fixed, use AltaMail - I did and it works perfectly. All 700+ emails on my Comcast POP account were downloaded fully and can be read offline.

Any update on this? This issue is extremely frustrating! Every person I know that uses the apple mail app is having the same issue except my wife with her AOL mail account....but who uses AOL these days?