disappearing e-mail
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KristianOslo
iPF Noob
I have the same problem with my new ipad: New mails are visible only for a short time (3 sec/30 sec/2 minutes aproximately). I have googled this problem, an it seems to be well known - but no solution 
My suspiscion is that when mails are downloaded to my Outlook on my PC, then it disappears from my iPad (and even if I close Outlook, I still have a small Outlook symbol on the bar at the bottom of the screen - detecting for new mails. And I have not found out how to avoid automatic download on Outlook). However, I do not have the same problem on my iPhone (mails are downloaded on both my PC and the iPhone). I really do not know what to do, and it is very frustrating. Somebody that can help us?
My suspiscion is that when mails are downloaded to my Outlook on my PC, then it disappears from my iPad (and even if I close Outlook, I still have a small Outlook symbol on the bar at the bottom of the screen - detecting for new mails. And I have not found out how to avoid automatic download on Outlook). However, I do not have the same problem on my iPhone (mails are downloaded on both my PC and the iPhone). I really do not know what to do, and it is very frustrating. Somebody that can help us?KristianOslo
iPF Noob
Acutally Loui, I did the following that seems to solve my problem:
I am using Outlook (but if you are using a different mail application, I guess that a similar procedeure also will do...), so I opened Tools/E-mail account setting/Change account (then press Next)/Then I marked the account that I want to change and pressed Change/Then More adjustments/Choosed the 4th flip Advanced and then pressed Delivery and then did the following magic trick:
----> Choose "Leave a copy on the server"
This worked for me (bud I have only 20 minutes experience...)! Only problem that I can see, is that the company that own the account before or later will delete my mails because I have reach the mailsize limit...
A spin off problem to this solution is that when I send a mail from my iPad to my iPad, i receive only the mail - as expected. But when I send from my PC, I do allways receive an attachment (winmail.dat of 2,8kB). But i can not open this file, so I do not know what it is.
I have now send 5 test mails to my self, and all looks fine (if you ignore the unwanted attachment...). I then did the oposite to what i wrote above (i.e. removed the checking in "Leave a copy on the server", and then refreshed my iPad.
And guess what: All 5 mails disappeared! Dangerous...
So I obviously went back and ticked the box "Leave a copy on the server"
I do not know if I am into something here, but I would love to get a comment from one iPad-specialist to take a closer look on this subject - or at least tell me if I am doing something wrong.
I am using Outlook (but if you are using a different mail application, I guess that a similar procedeure also will do...), so I opened Tools/E-mail account setting/Change account (then press Next)/Then I marked the account that I want to change and pressed Change/Then More adjustments/Choosed the 4th flip Advanced and then pressed Delivery and then did the following magic trick:
----> Choose "Leave a copy on the server"
This worked for me (bud I have only 20 minutes experience...)! Only problem that I can see, is that the company that own the account before or later will delete my mails because I have reach the mailsize limit...
A spin off problem to this solution is that when I send a mail from my iPad to my iPad, i receive only the mail - as expected. But when I send from my PC, I do allways receive an attachment (winmail.dat of 2,8kB). But i can not open this file, so I do not know what it is.
I have now send 5 test mails to my self, and all looks fine (if you ignore the unwanted attachment...). I then did the oposite to what i wrote above (i.e. removed the checking in "Leave a copy on the server", and then refreshed my iPad.
And guess what: All 5 mails disappeared! Dangerous...
So I obviously went back and ticked the box "Leave a copy on the server"
I do not know if I am into something here, but I would love to get a comment from one iPad-specialist to take a closer look on this subject - or at least tell me if I am doing something wrong.
