Setting up Tesco.net emails on iPhone 5 & keeping on Tesco.net server ......

[dvtrv]

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*Setting up Tesco.net emails on iPhone 5 & keeping on Tesco.net server until downloaded on to my Outlook 2013 on PC*

Well I had this working well for a few years but was forced to reinstall tesco.net mail address as had issues. Now i face one, or maybe 2, issue(s).
I have an iPhone 5 and use Outlook 2013 on my newish decent Dell Laptop. Phone, iTunes, laptop and all r kept up to date and well maintained.

I hope someone out there can assist me please.:\

So, Tesco.net email setup on phone, pop had to be used.

I can; Send, receive and all that, BUT, if i S&R'e away from my office (on iPhone) which happens to be my home.
After returning home to open outlook 2013 I'm now discovering that neither the sent nor received emails come to my PC on to my Outlook.

Anybody know what the issue could be?
I tried calling Tesco but was met with some kid who clearly couldn't listen nor grasp simple English.

I'm at a loss and could really do with some help here please.

Thank you,

dvtrv

 

[Ichinisan]

"S&R'e" -???

IMAP
- work with messages and folders on the server
- multiple IMAP clients stay in-sync with each other and with webmail

POP
- work with local copies of messages
- some POP clients delete messages from server as they are downloaded by default
- your folders are local, only on your device

POP was conceived when the thought of a home computer was just silly and checking email from multiple different devices was incomprehensible. Many POP clients have a non-standard option to leave a copy of each message on the server, so you can *kinda* make 2 POP clients play nice with each other. Notably, Google-hosted email doesn't like that. POP+LMoS ("Leave Message on Server") requires the POP client to keep a list of all the email on the server it is downloaded before so it doesn't re-download those messages. That list can get corrupted, or the POP client can get confused in countless ways, resulting in YEARS of accumulated duplicate messages being re-downloaded in your client accidentally...which is a mess.

Everything supports IMAP now. Don't use POP.

iPhone/iOS can specify which folders on the IMAP server to use for special things (Drafts, Sent, Trash, Archive, etc).

Some versions of Outlook let you specify which IMAP folders to use for sent messages and deleted messages (Microsoft is strangely inconsistent between versions because they want Outlook to work best with a proprietary Microsoft Exchange server).

Windows Mail (Vista), Windows Live Mail (Win7/8/10),mako ills Thinderbird, and Mail for OSX have proper support for specifying special folders on IMAP server.

Mail for Win10 is a joke. Even Windows 8 Mail allowed you to do more.

Last I checked, Android's Mail app didn't have any options for storing special folders on IMAP server, but IMAP always makes more sense than POP (at least have access to same folders and see which messages are read/unread).

 

[Ichinisan]

I like the way Google hosted mail does it. No matter which device sends a message (sending is always SMTP), it will always have a copy on the server. In fact, you don't want your device to put one on the server because you'd end up with 2 copies of each sent message. EVERY non-Google mail host I've dealt with will not have a copy of your sent message on the server unless your device specifically put one there. That also means your device has double the data usage (transmit once to SMTP server, then upload a copy to IMAP server).

Google puts all the special folders under "[Gmail]" -- so you know you can't delete / rename those folders because the server uses them.

 

[Ichinisan]

iOS also lets you specify a folder to use for archiving messages (just name the folder "Archive"). You can hold the trash can for the archive option to pop-up. You can also change a preference so the trash can button changes to a banker's box button and "archive" is the default action when you tap it (hold for the option to delete).

 

[dvtrv]

So do you know how i can set it up so after getting on hone they'll tay on server?

 

[dvtrv]

Ah ok.
So I could do with knowing how to setup Tesco.net email on mt iphone using IMAP settings please.

Do you know how and are you able to assist me here please or point me on the right direction?

 

[Ichinisan]

Ah ok.
So I could do with knowing how to setup Tesco.net email on my iphone using IMAP settings please.

Do you know how and are you able to assist me here please or point me on the right direction?

Need to know incoming/outgoing server address. Might be something like "mail.tesco.com" or something like that.

Need to know if SSL encryption is supported or required.

Probably need to know if the username/account name is the entire email address or just the first part (before the "@").

I'll try searching Google for "Tesco IMAP" and see what comes up.

 

[Ichinisan]

http://www.tescobroadband.com/Help-and-Support/Articles/View/2118?cat=1162

So, basically:

Incoming

Host Name:
mail.tesco.net

User Name:
[try the full email address first if that doesn't work, try the first part]

[Outgoing]

Host Name:
mail.tesco.net

User Name:
[try the full email address first if that doesn't work, try the first part]
- even though iOS says "optional" for outgoing username and password, they are actually required

 

[dvtrv]

Apologies for the long delay. I did with mail.tesco.net and full email address then opted for trying without ssl now all's good thank you.
Next issue is finding old deleted messages in trash folder often.

Thank you