A different kind of email setup?

Use IMAP server instead, or Exhange server.

I have always all email on iPhone, iPod, iPad and Mac; also the send one. Very transparent

By the way: 7 billion people I guess, didn't count recently

 

My bad; missed that. shouldn't read forums late Friday night

 

Exchange won't put them all on your phone. It will only do the most recent messages. (Mine is set to sync 1 month of emails)

 

gmail can be used as IMAP if i remember correctly.

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77702

 

You can set IMAP servers to just show 1 days worth of emails. Therefore the inbox will be empty in the morning, you can pick up and reply to your emails and they'll be copied straight up to the imap server instead.

 

Sorry, but any system that requires you to dock your phone to your computer daily is never going to become popular.

I'm not saying you wouldn't like it, I'm just saying no one is going to build that because there would be too few customers to make it worthwhile to them.

 

I don't know when I last time docked my iDevices ... We are in the post PC area, aren't we ?

Ok, I know: still have to dock when I want to develop some stuff as XCode still don't transfer wireless. But that's not counting.

 

You host your own pop server with your own domain? Google will host email with any domain for free, if you have over a certain amount of email, they do charge a small fee.

I host my own email, and use it through google and use it with exchange. It's wonderful.

 

Then your battery is toe up and you need a replacement. Twice a day is kinda nuts. But docking daily for syncing has gotten old fast and not coming back.

 

UGH POP3, What a disgraceful way to obtain your email. IMAP is the best way no matter what your needs are. I have yet to see an advantage POP has over IMAP.