Email retrieving mechanism

[peteding]

To retrieve e-mail from a remote server, scroll to your mailbox, and press Retrieve e-mail.
Select:
• Mail headers (stay online) — to retrieve only the sender, date and subject information.
• Messages — to retrieve entire e-mails without the attachments.
• Messages and attachments — to retrieve all e-mails and the attachments they contain.
• Ask before retrieving — to confirm whether the device should retrieve mails.

Press Retrieve to go online and retrieve the mails.

>> I have tried the above for pop3 and IMAP4, selecting messages or messages and attachments. Nothing happens....only the mail headers are retrieved. Any idea why?

[Raven]

Originally Posted by peteding

only the mail headers are retrieved. Any idea why?

Have you set the 'Max. size of e-mail' option to a high enough value?

[peteding]

I think my understanding of the feature could be the problem here. I realise that the option may apply for mails that have not been retrieved previously. Once u have retrieved the mail headers previously, this option will not do anything. To retrieve the full contents of the mail, I have to retrieved selected. Can anyone clarify this?

regards

[Raven]

Yes, the option applies to e-mails that have not been retrieved. If you already have retrieved the header, then you have to 'retrieve selected'.