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I have a user who wants to have his iPhone and his outlook account sync together.  So if he deletes or sends an email on his iPhone it will show up sent or deleted on his outlook account and vice versa.  I have never done this before.  Right now we are using pop for the email account in Outlook.  I know you would need to change this to imap but what is the actual process on the Outlook account to do this and what is the process on the iPhone to do this?  This is for outlook 2013.  I am upgrading the user from outlook 2007 to outlook 2013 to do this.  Does anyone know of a software program out there that would allow me to accomplish this in outlook 2007?
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When I recreate the account on both sides will I lose all of the emails on both the computer and the iPhone?
Yes. The mail is stored locally, if there is no setting to keep the mails after receiving (don't know for iPhone, but you keep POP3 mails on server for an unlimited time, a certain time period or not at all).

If you need to keep the existing mails, and the mail server has no copy of them, create the IMAP as a different account. Optionally you can than move the POP mails to the IMAP account from both devices, but that might result in duplicate emails if received on both devices.
I don't know about Outlook per se, but I recently switched my Yahoo mail account to IMAP since Yahoo supported both IMAP and POP3.  I set up a new account in my email client (Thunderbird) for accessing my mail via IMAP.  It had a separate Inbox from my POP3 Inbox.  Once I had the new IMAP account working I then dragged the messages from my POP3 Inbox to my IMAP Inbox.  Very shortly all those messages were sent back up to the Yahoo mail server and I could see them on my phone.  I imagine this would be similar to Outlook.

I would suggest you set up your email client on your PC to not check for messages from any Spam folders you might have on your email host.  No point wasting the bandwidth.  I just use the web interface to clean out the spam.  This would be more of an issue with POP3 but even downloading headers in IMAP for all the spam I get would be a waste.

Now I can see my sent messages on both my phone and desktop.  This is very handy.
larryh, that is what I've described in http:#a40504898 ;-).
Qlemo, yeah, I see what you mean.  I guess I didn't analyze your message closely enough.
Yes, cryptology is one of my topic areas :D