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iPhone e-mail sync with Outlook

Is there a way to sync your outlook inbox and outbox with your iphone? I am going from an exchange server to IMAP/POP3. The part I don't like is that when I delete an email from my iphone it does not delete from my outlook inbox. Is there a way to do this or am I out of luck because I am off of exchange?

Simon Butler (Sembee)

IMAP works in a similar way to Exchange, so the messages should go.
POP3 does not, because that is designed to be managed locally only.

Simon.

tsaico

Exchange also handles things like calendar, contacts, and tasks which you won't get anymore. IMAP will still do what you are looking to accomplish though.

As a side note, I have a couple of iPhone users who use IMAP and it has been varying levels of frustrating for them. Most of it is user impatience, such as not wanting to wait for the 15 min check, or deleting items on the phone and it takes a while for it to go back. It sounds to me that you are on POP instead, which does exactly what you described.

Because it doesn't do the contacts and calendar, I usually keep my business users off, or migrate them to GMail.

Lior Karasenti

You can change the settings for POP3 in your iPhone so the message will be deleted from the server if your Outlook didn't download it

http://email.about.com/od/iphonemailtips/qt/delete_from_pop.htm

tbawarehouse

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@tsaico

IMAP can def be just as confusing. I am thinking of just hosting through Rackspace exchange and calling it a day.

Any reason to convert to gmail? This is a business so I hate to email from a gmail address.

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