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iOS 9 Users Having Issues With POP Email Accounts and Attachments
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Ugh, POP3. Glad most people are moving away from it. I'm sure Apple will patch this one up. This just goes to show how complex Mobile platforms are getting - where validation of a build is an incredibly complex problem now. Of course, if truth be told, I think Apple's SW team has had slipping standards in the past few years, it seems like one QA headache after another.
I don't know what you're on about . As far as I can tell . iOS 9 has been nothing but a a joy to use.
The only downfall was the first few days of installation witch made my devices pretty slow because of Siri indexing
This is my favorite followed by iOS 4
NOW...I'm REALLY confused. I use POP on all my Apple devices and computers, and ONLY my iMac is set to download and remove mail from the server (have MacBook, iPhone, iPad, too). I prefer things this way. But, am also having this issue since upgrading to 9.x.
However, I understood IMAP was used to just view the server, and not download anything (kinda like an Exchange server works with OutLook)? So, if the server goes down, you can't see any email. Are you saying IMAP will download the email AND you see only what's on the server?
I'm just having issues with battery life, man it's ******.
My iPhone 6s (TSMC) wont even last me the day, it got me through 12 hours and that is it.
My Xperia would last me over 3 days, my iPhone wont even get me through one.
It sucks.
My iPhone 6s (TSMC) wont even last me the day, it got me through 12 hours and that is it.
My Xperia would last me over 3 days, my iPhone wont even get me through one.
It sucks.
I prefer POP thank you very much!People still use POP mail services?
Makes a great sound, as in POP goes the weasel, when a bottle opens,
you buy POP tarts, (could be people too), pop singer etc.
Many reasons why we need POP.
It's not just POP - I've been seeing this problem repeatedly with an IMAP server since the iOS9 upgrade - and never before. Getting a lot of messages unreadable on both my iPhone and iPad - and a lot failing to download the full body first time on El Capitan too. May well be that my server's a bit slow, but a mail client needs to deal with that. Particularly frustrating on iOS is that once it's decided it can't be downloaded, you're stuck with that.
So - any recommendations for an alternative iOS mail client until they fix this?
So - any recommendations for an alternative iOS mail client until they fix this?
I wonder if this ties in with another mail issue many are seeing: offline mail show only header data or header data plus framework but no email body detail. Seeing this on both POP and IMAP under iOS9.
I can't believe that there's still people in the 21st Century using Pop mail.
Pop mail has been very unreliable when being accessed by more than one device, and also consumes bandwidth and resources trying figure out what needs to download where.
I have 6 iMap accounts being accessed by 6 different devices ( 3 iOS and 3 OS X), and don't have any issues.
Pop mail support should be have been fully deprecated from the Internet years ago.
Pop mail has been very unreliable when being accessed by more than one device, and also consumes bandwidth and resources trying figure out what needs to download where.
I have 6 iMap accounts being accessed by 6 different devices ( 3 iOS and 3 OS X), and don't have any issues.
Pop mail support should be have been fully deprecated from the Internet years ago.
Try Reset Network Settings first, and if it doesn't fix it, try Reset All Settings. You'll see your problem will go away. In rare cases, this could be caused by an old version of iMap Server.
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Pop should be killed by fire and shot into the sun afterwards just to make sure it doesn't return. Awful mail protocol.
Very much surprised POP3 is still being wildly used but then I'm sure Apple will get this patched in due course. I realise many use it as a way to just have one machine to actually delete the mail but if you don't want the email and you delete it from your phone, why do you still want that email to exist anyway?
Apples exchange support sucks on OS X mail, outlook 2016, and pretty much in general. So, pick your poison and your in trouble on the other device.
This is exactly how I have mine configured. I don't delete from server until my Mac downloads them. I don't want it deleting everywhere if I delete from my phone or iPad. This needs to get fixed. It is iratating that I am losing Mail on my phone once my Mac downloads it.
Easy I get sent lots of pictures or reservation info and I don't need to keep it on my phone. I would like to keep it on my computer mail. When my mother in law was ill I would get multiple emails a day on her condition. I don't need them on my phone but kept them in a saved folder in my mail on my Mac.
All the "encouragement" to get off of a POP3 account aside, the biggest mess with this is that emails created on the phone self destruct after a few hours if their content includes any sort of attachment. And perhaps going to IMAP is the answer for me. But that doesn't fix what's already been thrown out by iOS 9 and doesn't address the deletion of data that doesn't exist anywhere else. I might just want to forward something to someone else more than a few hours after the message was first created.
Ironically one of the sent items that evaporated off of my phone was the transcript of a nearly two-hour-long chat session with Apple Support which I sent from my POP Earthlink account to my iCloud account just so it wouldn't get lost. There's a screen shot in one of the threads on the Apple Support Forums on this of an "update to iOS 9" mailing from Apple that now only says "This message has not been downloaded from the server"
I wish that if they decided not to support POP anymore they'd have just told us straight out
Ironically one of the sent items that evaporated off of my phone was the transcript of a nearly two-hour-long chat session with Apple Support which I sent from my POP Earthlink account to my iCloud account just so it wouldn't get lost. There's a screen shot in one of the threads on the Apple Support Forums on this of an "update to iOS 9" mailing from Apple that now only says "This message has not been downloaded from the server"
I wish that if they decided not to support POP anymore they'd have just told us straight out
unreal how many people don't fundamentally understand that POP3 is the second most reliable communication protocol ever developed - the most reliable being usenet.
Yeah, it's kind of like a laptop using punch cards: you wouldn't think those two technologies were ever contemporary to each other.
