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Help me understand email on cell phones

post #1 of 5
9/15/09 at 1:12pm
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This is a pretty dumb question, but I can't get this figured out.

I know push email is when the email pops up on your phone the second it's received by the server, rather than having to check. I know my company has this capability.

What I am more interested in is having my phone and email account continuously sync so that if I send an email from my phone, it also appears in my sent items in my regular email program, e.g. Gmail or Outlook. Does this just mean I have to have IMAP email set up (because IMAP tracks the state of a message regardless of the software/inbox/device being used)?

For the record I am currently using a Moto Q, the biggest POS phone ever invented to rip off BB (epic fail).
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post #2 of 5
9/15/09 at 1:31pm
I'm no expert, but IMAP will do the track, because with IMAP, the e-mails remain on the server even after they're downloaded by a client, whereas with a POP e-mail account, once it's downloaded off the server by a client, it's gone from the server for good. I think an Exchange server will do the same thing too.

I have an IMAP e-mail server and use Outlook on my desktop and an Iphone for mobile, and it syncs together well.
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post #3 of 5
9/15/09 at 5:38pm
Yes IMAP is 100% what you want. If you want sent messages to be synced as well some clients may require you to select this option (because sent mail technically goes through an SMTP server which may not be the same machine). I know Apple Mail and iPhone, and probably most clients, have this as the default.
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post #4 of 5
9/15/09 at 5:48pm
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So I pulled the trigger on a Blackberry Tour today... had to fight Bell tooth and nail to get the discount I wanted but pulled it off. Gotta pick it up this evening after work. I believe it will do what I want. I nearly went with a Palm Pre until I realized I would lose BB Messenger which is popular with a number of my friends, and it was just too web-heavy and not really messaging heavy, which remains my priority.
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post #5 of 5
9/16/09 at 5:10am
IMAP or Exchange / BES will do what you're talking about.
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