iOS 9 Users Having Issues With POP Email Accounts and Attachments

[Amazing Iceman]

The problem with GMail is people are use to keeping all there email in the INBOX! Apple wants INBOX ZERO so that is why Apple email programs have problem with Apple Mail connecting to a Gmail Servers. Plus Google likes changing there email servers all the time.

Really? I have two Gmail accounts with thousands of emails each, and using both for several years.

I never had any issues with either account (using iMAP). The only minor nuisances happened twice when Google decided to ask to enter my password again.

 

[satcomer]

Really? I have two Gmail accounts with thousands of emails each, and using both for several years.

I never had any issues with either account (using iMAP). The only minor nuisances happened twice when Google decided to ask to enter my password again.

His issue is with the older POP one connection!

 

[Amazing Iceman]

His issue is with the older POP one connection!

Then what you are experiencing is to be expected.

Please read above, POP was not designed to support multiple devices.
Enabling the option to 'Leave messages on the server' doesn't give POP the ability to support multiple devices.
It's just a workaround that simply doesn't work as expected when you have too many emails.
This is not an Apple issue, as I have seen it happen with Outlook in the past.

If you want it to work properly, use iMAP instead, or the Gmail Client App.

 

[DCIFRTHS]

Then what you are experiencing is to be expected.

Please read above, POP was not designed to support multiple devices.
Enabling the option to 'Leave messages on the server' doesn't give POP the ability to support multiple devices.
It's just a workaround that simply doesn't work as expected when you have too many emails.
This is not an Apple issue, as I have seen it happen with Outlook in the past.

If you want it to work properly, use iMAP instead, or the Gmail Client App.

POP works fine for me on multiple clients and devices. It supports multiple clients just fine. Please stop slandering a protocol that works fine for many people.

IMAP is poorly implemented on many clients. It's slow, quirky, and offers a wonderfully confusing user experience - especially when there is more that one email account in use. It seems that every ISP / developer has their own implementation of the "standard".

To the poster you were responding to: Try this Gmail help article for a tip on using multiple clients.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

POP works fine for me on multiple clients and devices. It supports multiple clients just fine. Please stop slandering a protocol that works fine for many people.

IMAP is poorly implemented on many clients. It's slow, quirky, and offers a wonderfully confusing user experience - especially when there is more that one email account in use. It seems that every ISP / developer has their own implementation of the "standard".

To the poster you were responding to: Try this Gmail help article for a tip on using multiple clients.

As you said above: "It may work on multiple devices", but it was not designed for that. That's why it works for you but not for other people.

If IMAP is poorly implemented on many clients, well... find a client that supports it properly.
And sometimes the ISP is the one to blame as they simply don't care.

But if you people want to insist on trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, go ahead. I won't question you anymore. If that's what you want to believe and makes you happy, you are on your own.

Here's a freebie for you: http://www.howtogeek.com/197207/email-basics-pop3-is-outdated-please-switch-to-imap-today/

 

[Robinson C]

POP works fine for me on multiple clients and devices. It supports multiple clients just fine. Please stop slandering a protocol that works fine for many people.

IMAP is poorly implemented on many clients. It's slow, quirky, and offers a wonderfully confusing user experience - especially when there is more that one email account in use. It seems that every ISP / developer has their own implementation of the "standard".

To the poster you were responding to: Try this Gmail help article for a tip on using multiple clients.

DCIFRTHS -- I'm also a POP user and I hope you can help me with an email question. I would like to install the ios 10 update but the ios9 debacle has made me wary. If you still use POP on an iPhone, can you tell me if it works with ios10?

 

[DotCom2]

DCIFRTHS -- I'm also a POP user and I hope you can help me with an email question. I would like to install the ios 10 update but the ios9 debacle has made me wary. If you still use POP on an iPhone, can you tell me if it works with ios10?

I'm not DCIFRTHS but I can tell you that my main email account is a POP and it works fine on iOS 10 and has worked fine for me on every iOS version from the beginning.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

You guys still using POP3 on multiple devices are playing with fire.
Hope nothing goes wrong, but you should consider switching to iMAP.

 

[DotCom2]

You guys still using POP3 on multiple devices are playing with fire.
Hope nothing goes wrong, but you should consider switching to iMAP.

Oh, no thank you.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

Oh, no thank you.

Your choice. I've seen it many times, sooner or later you will regret it.

 

[Robinson C]

I'm not DCIFRTHS but I can tell you that my main email account is a POP and it works fine on iOS 10 and has worked fine for me on every iOS version from the beginning.

Thanks, fellow player with fire, it's encouraging to know that you haven't had problems.

 

[DotCom2]

Thanks, fellow player with fire, it's encouraging to know that you haven't had problems.

LOL.

 

[DCIFRTHS]

DCIFRTHS -- I'm also a POP user and I hope you can help me with an email question. I would like to install the ios 10 update but the ios9 debacle has made me wary. If you still use POP on an iPhone, can you tell me if it works with ios10?

Hi Robinson C

Sorry for the delay in responding...

At this point in time, I only check one of my email accounts on iOS. I use the native G Mail client for that one account, and I rarely ever check it. The truth is that I hate the phone for checking mail because I can't read the text without reading glasses, and I am very lazy when it comes to carrying my glasses.

I know you didn't ask about Mac OS, but I still use POP on my desktop for all my accounts, and have no problems.

 

[Robinson C]

Hi Robinson C

Sorry for the delay in responding...

At this point in time, I only check one of my email accounts on iOS. I use the native G Mail client for that one account, and I rarely ever check it. The truth is that I hate the phone for checking mail because I can't read the text without reading glasses, and I am very lazy when it comes to carrying my glasses.

I know you didn't ask about Mac OS, but I still use POP on my desktop for all my accounts, and have no problems.

Thanks for taking the time to answer (I know what you mean, it seems like those fonts just keep getting smaller!)