DroidX and Office Outlook 2007 Oddities??

[oldAGE]

Maybe I am too old and have been doing this for too long but...
And I can't believe I am the only one having this issue but...

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why my new DX will sometimes pick up mail from my ISP mail server (hosting by Gmail but setup for POP at home) and sometimes it doesn't. To make matters worse, sometimes I get mail at both the DX and my POP Client (Office Outlook 2007) and sometimes it arrives only at my DX and never at my POP Client.

So here it goes:
Office Outlook 2007 (POP Client) set up to leave message on the server and never delete. Set up to send/receive every 10 min.
DX set up to pull mail every 15 min and no other settings to manage.
ISP Mail Services set up to never delete and the mail that I am not getting on my POP Client are still marked unread on the server even after reading them from the DX so they seem to be unread.
It seems that if I use my POP Client and retrieve the email before the DX, I still get the email on the PC and it also is retrieved by the DX at some time.

This is a bit maddening... I bet it's something simple that I am completely overlooking. Right?

I am an old time BB user to boot...

Thanks for all assistance.
AGE

 

[RedSoxGeek]

It could be that the DX is using IMAP4 and not POP3 settings... So if the PC gets the email first and then something is done the DX may not get it at all because of the time difference in the send/receive 10min vs 15min. Try setting the send/receive in Outlook and the DX to the same thing. Then make sure both are setup the same way, I would use IMAP4 and not POP3. That way they will sync about about the same time and that when you do something on one device it should happen on both.

 

[oldAGE]

Thanks RSG. Everything is set up as POP3. No mixing, only matching. But I was thinking of converting everything to IMAP as you suggest based on the nuances of push/pull methodologies. As a BB user, I am truly accustomed to a very quality email experience irrespective of client or web service. My fear is breaking something else down the line.

Again, thanks for the guidance.
AGE

 

[oldAGE]

Well... after a few days of messing with this and contacting Verizon, I decided to get help from my ISP. It seems to go like this...

As a gmail host, they can only POP to one client under normal settings. First come first served. But, their work-around to pop all clients is that the PC POP client gets configured with a user name prefix of "recent:". As in username: recent:<usernamegoeshere>@gmail.com

This works and now all POP clients receives all mail... with the downside that all outbound mail from the client is received by the server and returned as a copy to all POP clients as inbound mail. WTF???? Annoying at worst. Easy to erase at best.

This is a done deal until gmail and POP work nicely together. Oh, for the IMAP fans, the ISP reports no change with either protocol. Both work identically other than the base functional deltas between the two. And so it goes... BB still remains the king of email apps in my book.

AGE

 

[buxleyp#AC]

Sorry to hear you're having problems. The recent: option works well for multiple pop clients, but if you can, you should use IMAP. Instant push vs POP's polling, sync of read messages, and better handling of multiple clients.

I wouldn't wait for Google to "fix" their POP, as it's been like that for a few years.