iPhones Frustrations

[MotionMan]

1. How do you manually sort the order of the email accounts on the iPhone short of deleting them all and putting them back in manually in the order you want them? (corollary: How do you sync email accounts through iTunes and NOT have iTunes reorder the accounts alphabetically or have it keep the order you have selected?);

2. How do you change the primary mail server for any given e-mail account? (...which will then allow me to delete all the duplicate mail servers.).

MotionMan (who hates clutter on his computers/iPhone)

 

[Rottie]

And no way to orginize photos or create separate photo folders 🙁

 

[Kmax82]

1. I don't think you can reorder. However, you can choose a PRIMARY account under Mail in Settings, and that is the one that shows up first in the list.

2. If you go into the specific mail accounts, in Mail in Settings.. then you can find an Account Info link at the top. If it's IMAP or POP3, then you can change that info. SMTP is at the bottom and that lists all the SMTP creds that you have on your phone. You can disable them, but I don't believe you can remove them, unless the account which corresponds to that SMTP is removed.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: Kmax82
1. I don't think you can reorder. However, you can choose a PRIMARY account under Mail in Settings, and that is the one that shows up first in the list.

2. If you go into the specific mail accounts, in Mail in Settings.. then you can find an Account Info link at the top. If it's IMAP or POP3, then you can change that info. SMTP is at the bottom and that lists all the SMTP creds that you have on your phone. You can disable them, but I don't believe you can remove them, unless the account which corresponds to that SMTP is removed.

I have not been able to find a way to change the primary SMTP.

Say I set up e-mail account No. 1 with a primary SMTP of "SMTPONE". Then I set up a second e-mail account - I have to manually enter a SMTP, so I use "SMTPONE" again (same exact settings as the first "SMTPONE"). I now have TWO SMTPs called SMTPONE, but only one of them is the primary for one e-mail account where the other is the primary for the other e-mail account. Since they are both listed as primary SMTPs for an e-mail account, the iPhone will not let me edit or delete either of them AND I cannot switch it so that both e-mail accounts use the same STMP as primary.

I feel like I am missing something or something has gone terribly wrong at Apple.

MotionMan

 

[Kmax82]

I don't think you're missing anything.. Mail on the iPhone is an awful app IMO. They don't have a unified inbox. You can't specify one account to send all your mail from. You can't change alert settings.. etc... it's obnoxious.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Originally posted by: Kmax82
I don't think you're missing anything.. Mail on the iPhone is an awful app IMO. They don't have a unified inbox. You can't specify one account to send all your mail from. You can't change alert settings.. etc... it's obnoxious.

Personally I really like the way mail works on the iPhone. I absolutely HATE the unified inbox like on the Blackberry.

As far as having all mail come from one address, I wouldn't want that either.
If I'm in my work exhcange account, I want to respond from that account and if I'm in my home account I want to respond from that.

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: DnetMHZ

Originally posted by: Kmax82
I don't think you're missing anything.. Mail on the iPhone is an awful app IMO. They don't have a unified inbox. You can't specify one account to send all your mail from. You can't change alert settings.. etc... it's obnoxious.

Personally I really like the way mail works on the iPhone. I absolutely HATE the unified inbox like on the Blackberry.

As far as having all mail come from one address, I wouldn't want that either.
If I'm in my work exhcange account, I want to respond from that account and if I'm in my home account I want to respond from that.

There's nothing stopping you from using a BB that way. You can view individual folders separatley if you wish. Your reply from accounts will match the folder you're in and it's not that hard to switch your sending e-mail in the unified mailbox.