My thread to rant about the !^%@$^! EMAIL program

[JoeT]

OK, if there was a reason to return the iPhone and go back to my Treo, the mail application is IT.

Now, I get emails where the first two preview lines appear but then the email itself has "not been downloaded from the server" when you click on it. I've had emails where the email has the "not been downloaded from the server" in the preview but the message was there. Today, however, takes the cake.

I'm out and about when I get an email. I pop it open, read it. Hey, I wanna chat with a buddy about it. So I call him, go to open it back up and IT HASN'T BEEN DOWNLOADED FROM THE &^@&%&*! SERVER!!!!!

Oh, and by the way, the Geniuses at the Apple store have no idea and are blaming the mail server. Apple Care was useless as well.

The Treo -- even with the much maligned Versamail application -- never did this to me. If it could download the mail, the mail was THERE. Period.

I will be VERY happy if this buggy piece of Software Having Intermittent Trouble gets fixed in an update or the SDK permits someone to write a REAL application. This is slowly making me insane.

However, on the other hand, if I return the iPhone, I won't have to replace the headset that my kid chewed up.

Thanks for letting me vent. I feel much better now. Time to go download my mail ON MY PC. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[Montalicious]

I've never had this problem... I've never heard of this trouble either. Do you have this problem on edge and wifi also?

[IphoneTony]

this happened to me the first few weeks I had my I phone. I have not seen this for a few months now.

[joe]

I've seen this only occasionally and only when in a poor signal area. If it happens with good signal even after restarting the iPhone or when on WiFi then you might want to check your Mail settings.

[JoeT]

It happens with both, but I notice it more with Edge since if I'm in Wifi coverage, 90% of the time that means I am home.

What's nuts is that IT DOWNLOADED THE MESSAGE. I was READING it. Then it decided that it hadn't been downloaded.. ARRGH!

[jjvaldez]

thls happens to me often with large pics being emailed to me, i just reset the phone and that works most of the time

[OJsakila]

Originally Posted by jjvaldez

thls happens to me often with large pics being emailed to me, i just reset the phone and that works most of the time

I totally agree. Most people forget this is like a little computer..... You MUST reboot every now and again.













If you had owned an IPAQ, you would never forget to reboot again......

[GailLA]

Originally Posted by OJsakila

I totally agree. Most people forget this is like a little computer..... You MUST reboot every now and again.

If you had owned an IPAQ, you would never forget to reboot again......

Ain't that the truth. I have a Palm T|X and I have that reset every night using an option in the 3rd party back-up program I use because the Web browser sucks and is more likely to hang if you don't do that.

With the iPhone I've gone days without rebooting. Sometimes the "errors" are so subtle that you don't realize that a reboot could fix them. Thanks for the reminder, OJ and JJ, too.

[tiguy99]

Originally Posted by GailLA

Ain't that the truth. I have a Palm T|X and I have that reset every night using an option in the 3rd party back-up program I use because the Web browser sucks and is more likely to hang if you don't do that.

With the iPhone I've gone days without rebooting. Sometimes the "errors" are so subtle that you don't realize that a reboot could fix them. Thanks for the reminder, OJ and JJ, too.

Thanks guys! You just reminded me to reboot lol

[JoeT]

A reboot didn't help...