"Mark for Download" email problem

[R]

I'm using an Audiovox SMT5600, which is my first smartphone, and mostly, I
like it very much.

I took it to Europe & used it to download my email (from a POP3 server) over
GPRS. Mostly, that worked well, but I had one problem which I haven't been
able to replicate since returning to the U.S. Since I had to pay for
internet usage in Europe (I pay the flat fee for unlimited in the U.S.), I
set my email to download only very few lines of the message, and then if I
wanted to see the full message, I'd hit "mark for download." The problem
was, the phone would automatically immediately go online, and if I hit mark
for download for more than one message, it would download the incorrect
message body for everything after the first message (low mortgage spam from
my sister?). I didn't have this problem if I waited & did just one message
at a time. But the GPRS downloading was very slow for me overseas (several
minutes to connect, logon, d/l), so if I wanted several messages it either
corrupted them or took forever. I couldn't prevent it from immediately
going online so I could collect several mark for download.

I haven't had this problem now that I'm back in the U.S. The process is
much faster here & I'm not getting the mixed-up message bodies.

Anybody had this experience & know a fix?

Or does anyone know how to make the phone wait to download several messages
until you tell it to?

[Gert Monnissen]

I have the same problem over and over when connecting to a pop3.
unfortunatly that pop3 is full of spam and while in US (I'm based in
Belgium,europe) I tend to use this pop3... almost each time it manages to
assign the wrong dat to the wrong header.... the only thing I could do was
deleting that pop3 account and set it up again to download all the headers
again... and at the end just going in to the hotel internetacces to check it
by webmail... to be honnest, in my opinion the current pop3 mail reader
connot handle a number of messages, we saw it with the development of our
"SMS cool" app that the database used in the phone is so bugy, it puts sms
and email messages in the same database, and quit often the DB gets
corrupted and when accesing the SMS a mail is shown... duh... hard rest will
do the trick... and it's not country related... I have the same problem here
in Belgium, It looks more that as soon as there are more than 200 mails, the
system can't handle it.

lucky for those who have flat rate data plan :-( I pay 15$ for 10mb
download a month, and when abroad they charge me big time... I spent 3 weeks
in hte US and had to pay 300 $ data usage.... bummer

"R" <R...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:iJdEe.46441$rb6.15924@lakeread07...

[Jim Koornneef]

I think I have a bit of a handle on this one as I've been seeing it too.

I found that if I delete any messages before marking for download without
synching the deleted headers back to the server, I get mis-matched messages.

So, I either mark for download, wait until all messages I marked are
complete and then start deleting spam,
Or delete items, check for new messages, and then start marking for
download.

I would guess that the POP server still has the messages with all messages
indexed, and the SP has the messages indexed with the deleted messages
removed?

I've seen this behaviour since SP 2002..

Best
-jim

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Jim Koornneef
Golden Crater Software

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