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I have a client who says that he used to have the following setup and behavior. He has company email thru some small-fry hosting company (IMAP). He has Outlook on Win7 and he has an iPhone with the included Email App. Both access his company email account.
He says he used to have and would like to have again the following behavior: Both the iPhone Mail and the Outlook see all emails. But they are out of sync in every other way. If he deletes an email from Outlook it's still there on his iPhone Email and vice versa. If he reads an email in Outlook it's still marked unread on his iPhone Email and vice versa. (I repeat, this is the behavior he used to have and wants again.)
He says nothing changed in his iPhone settings, but Outlook got reinstalled and now the two are in sync. And he doesn't want them in sync. Does anyone know how to set up Outlook to be out of sync with iPhone Email using the above behavior?
I thought about having a separate local Outlook folder that all his emails get auto-copied to where the IMAP server doesn't synch them up. But he said he had nothing kludgy like that and he doubts anyone set up any of those Outlook rules to accomplish this.
What if you set up Outlook as IMAP and his mobile email as POP3 or something to that effect? Outlook would be synced but the mobile emails would be static local copies so changes in Outlook wouldn't affect the local copies on the phone (or vice versa).... Although I still can't fathom why you would WANT that. – Ciaran McKenzie – 2018-01-26T15:57:49.720
If it was Outlook that got reinstalled then I would suspect that's where the change happened, so leave the phone set up as is, and if the Outlook is now IMAP, change to POP3? – Ciaran McKenzie – 2018-01-26T15:59:57.517
OK, I thought POP3 meant that email could only be seen by one client in the first place. So I was contemplating the idea of POP3, but I figured that was throwing darts in the dark. But OK, thx for the advice. – Joe C – 2018-01-27T04:04:44.990