Download Messages From The Last 14 Days

[adamz]

In Windows Mobile 6, you can set the Messaging application to only download a certain number of days worth of messages off your POP3 or IMAP email server. This is great if you want to speed up downloads by not downloading everything every time you connect. The options are to download:

Today's messages
The last 3 daysThe last 5 days
The last 7 days
The last 30 days
All messages

That difference between 7 days and 30 days is huge! Downloading 7 days of my email over WiFi is pretty quick, but it’s not really enough.

Downloading 30 days is much much slower. It would be nice if we could choose a more custom number of days. I think 14 days worth of email would be perfect for me.

Those of you with Windows Mobile 5.0 or earlier might have noticed that you do have the ability to enter a custom number of days worth of emails in the Account Options! Well look at that! Such a great feature has been removed from Windows Mobile 6.

Can anybody tell me why something so useful would be removed? Is there any way to bring it back? Or add a custom option for downloading 14 days worth of emails? Exchange ActiveSync has more sensible options for downloading email and includes an option for two weeks. It’s still not as customizable as the Windows Mobile 5.0 version, but with Exchange 2007 you can actually just search through your whole server based Exchange account and selectively download an older message you may need when you need it. And that’s great with my work email, but I also have a couple other personal email accounts on IMAP servers.

I guess maybe the Windows Mobile 5.0 Messaging program only displays the specified number of days worth of email, but still downloads all of them? That doesn't really make sense.

[zoom2020]

I'm not sure what version of WM5 you are referring to, but WM5 on Smartphone does not allow you to enter a custom number. It has about the same options as WM6.

[adamz]

I'm not sure what version of WM5 you are referring to, but WM5 on Smartphone does not allow you to enter a custom number. It has about the same options as WM6.

Oh, sorry. The Pocket PC versions of the Messaging program have always had a custom number of days field until Windows Mobile 6 Professional.

[Pony99CA]

I'm not sure what version of WM5 you are referring to, but WM5 on Smartphone does not allow you to enter a custom number. It has about the same options as WM6.
In fact, the options are exactly the same between WM 5 Smartphone and WM 6. This is probably part of two initiatives from Microsoft:


The converging of the Pocket PC and Smartphone platforms
Making Pocket PC Phones more one-hand friendly (typing usually requires two hands).

I don't know why they couldn't add a few more options in there, though, like 14 and 21 days.

However, this is not a bug; it's a design decision. You can argue that it's a bad decision, but it's most certainly not a bug and shouldn't be called one.

Steve