POP downloading--Entourage & iPod Touch

[Michelle]

I'm still looking into moving to IMAP and having my Yahoo mail forwarded to
a gmail account. But until I have a chance to sort that out, I have a
question about downloading messages from a POP account.

Right now I have Yahoo Mail Plus so that I can download messages to my
Entourage account and have them offline. I also have it set to leave
messages on the Yahoo servers until they're deleted from my computer.

If I set up my Yahoo account on my iPod Touch also, what problems might I
have? Do Yahoo's servers remember what's been downloaded to each device--or
just what's been downloaded at all?

For example, if I read mail from the Touch through the Mail feature (not
within Safari), will those e-mails then not be downloaded to Entourage on my
Mac? Or will the servers know that the Entourage does not yet have those
new e-mails and download them in addition to having downloaded them to the
Touch. ?

 

[randdv8]

Michelle,

To my knowledge, Yahoo does not keep track of what has been downloaded by your email client. You should be fine with "Leave on Server" and be able to access the mail on both devices. As it's a POP setup, you will not have read status synchronized. gMail DOES keep track of what has been downloaded with POP so IMAP is the way to go with a gMail account,