View Full Version : Syncing regular OSX Mail and iPhone Mail?
deesandvees
02-02-2009, 04:52 PM
Did a search but couldn't find this info, I'm using 10.4 Mail on my PowerBook and wondered if there's a way to sync it with my iPhone? At nigjt when i get home it'd be nice to not have to go through a bunch of messages on my PowerBook that I've already received on my iPhone. I wish the "been read" status my iPhone gives a message after reading would transfer over to the same message in my PowerBook mail program. Is this possible?
baggss
02-02-2009, 05:16 PM
You can close your e-mail at home and set the iPhone to delete messages from the server when it downloads them.
deesandvees
02-02-2009, 06:36 PM
But if I'd like to be able to access all email on both units I'm out of luck?
baggss
02-02-2009, 10:27 PM
I don't see how you can. If they are both on at the same time the mail will come to whichever device queries the server first. I suppose you could set both Mail and the iPhone to leave the messages on the server and you manually clean it up as you desire.
I leave my e-mail at home off during the day so everything comes to my phone. Then I download it all from my desktop and it is then removed from the server. I do the same with my laptop too. That way mail only gets deleted when I get it on my desktop since it is the master storage device. This comes in handy when I am out of town on business.