Hi,
I receive my emails to my phone and PC. At the moment I have to delete emails from both individually and I was wondering if I could sync my email accounts in anyway so that if I delete an email on my phone it is automatically deleted form my PC and vice versa.
Thanks for any help
Keith
This is a function of IMAP or Exchange.
If the account is setup as IMAP in eM Client, which is the default way we setup accounts, it gives a cached view of the messages stored on the server. Any other device or app also using IMAP/Exchange to connect to the same account, will give the same view, just like webmail. So if you delete the message on one device, it will also show as deleted on the other devices. If you mark a message as read on one device, it will also show as read on the other devices.
You can see which way your account is setup by going to Menu > Accounts. You will either have an IMAP or Exchange tab, or a POP3 tab. POP3 doesn’t sync with the server, so the Inbox will not be the same as it is on another device.
I get all emails on both phone and laptop(which is stationary & used like PC). Both accounts are set at the same POP3 & SMTP ports. I have to delete each separately. What bothers me most is if I send an email from my laptop, that email and subsequent emails are not in the phone app. How can I sync them so they are the same?
It’s worth it in the long run if you can switch to IMAP. Can you describe your email, do you have your own domain name and have hosted email?
The only way then to resolve that is as @Gary advised, is to “change your mail account setup to IMAP” instead of POP, so that if you then delete an email on one device “all your other devices configured with the same IMAP account will also then automatically delete”.
What bothers me most is if I send an email from my laptop, that email and subsequent emails are not in the phone app. How can I sync them so they are the same?
Once you reset-up your mail account as IMAP, then when you send mail “all your other devices sent boxes will update automatically exactly the same”.
So to do that, go to “Menu / Accounts” and add your same mail account as IMAP either the “Automatic account wizard” or Manual setup via “Add Account / Mail / Other” depending on your specific providers mailbox requirements, and then once added, “drag / move all your existing POP account messages and any custom message folders to your IMAP account.
Then once you are certain all your POP account messages have been transferred to your IMAP account, then remove your POP account.
Note: Before doing anything, make a manual backup of eM Client via “Menu / Backup” in case you need to restore for any reason. You can see when the backup is complete in Show Operations via clicking the dropdown on the right of Refresh top left.
Lastly setting up an IMAP mail account “will use more space on the mail server end” as per all your mail is stored at the server end, but “most servers have a lot of mail space these days” and various space options you can choose. If space then becomes a problem on your server and eg: you then carnt afford more server mailbox space, then eM Client has options built in such as eg: Automatic Archiving messages older than x days to a Local folder, or an option to create a Local hard disk Data .emdf file where you can store old messages offline as well if you need to.