Thanks for your response. I have been using POP for reasons I'll explain below, but I would be happy to have an enhanced experience using IMAP if it would allow me to do what I want to do with both my phone and pc client. So, here are the answers to your questions:
1. I have 2 accounts in AquaMail right now. One of them is no longer active, but I have not yet removed the account because there are some emails in it that I still need to refer to on my phone. As soon as I no longer need those emails, I would be happy to remove the account.
2. I receive on average about 10 emails per day on the active account.
3. Maximum number of received emails per day would be about 35.
4. Here’s how and why I use POP on my phone. The way I use mail on my phone is that I like everything to come into both my phone and my PC client. Then I can delete those things that I don’t need to look at on the phone, knowing that this doesn't affect what’s downloaded to my PC, and I can look at them later when I’m back at my computer. On the other hand, emails which contain information I might need on the road I like to keep on my phone and have a way to find them easily even if I’m not on-line. If I don’t delete anything on my phone, the in-box will get filled up with things I don’t need to see (especially since I’ve set AquaMail to bcc me on things I send from my phone) and will make it hard to find the things I need when I need them.
Normally, there are two types of emails I like to have on my phone. The first are the ones I talked about above, that contain information that I need on the road and might need to access when I’m not on-line. The second type I like to keep on my phone are messages that I need to respond to one of these days, and I might do it from my PC at home or I might do it from my phone if I find myself killing time, say sitting in a waiting room. Generally, I get rid of everything else from my phone – both the emails that are dealt with and done, and the emails that I only want to deal with from my PC at home. On my phone inbox, I star emails that contain information I might need on the road, and just keep the second type in my inbox where I can find them relatively easily, since I don’t keep much else in my inbox on the phone.
I did try using IMAP with my former email account (the one that’s no longer active), but I was finding that since the mail client on my laptop at home is always on, messages were never considered “new” on my phone unless I had turned my laptop off, so I wasn’t getting an new mail notifications. Also, of course, on IMAP, deleting from my phone deleted them from my server so if my laptop was off, then they didn’t download to my laptop at all. Changing to POP settings at least solved those two issues. The drawback of the way I've been doing it, of course, is that I must look at everything twice.
Sorry to be so wordy. I just wanted to try to really clarify what and how I was using my phone and pc. If there's a way to achieve the same goals better than the way I've being doing it, I'd be thrilled.
