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I have my phone set up for POP3. I have the frequency setting to 1 hour and the download options to 3 days. Some e-mails are coming though to the phone but others are not. Any ideas why?

PS What exactly does download to 3 days do? (it's the default setting)

3 days refers the how far back it will go back to get mail. If you are away from a data connection or your phone is off for say 6 days, when you pop your mail it will only retrieve the mail from the past 3 days instead of going back to when it lost its data connection. Had this problem with Windows Mobile.

Thanks for your replies.

I found what the probelm was. On my machine, my downlaod frequency was set to 15 mins and the mails were being deleted from the server immediately after a send/receive. Therefore, my laptop was synching every 15 mins so the phone was only getting mails on the hour synch.

To resolve this, I needed to change the settings on my laptop client (in my case Outlook) not to delete the mails on the server immdeiately. I just set it to 1 day here. This option is available in the Account Settings. So the mails are then 'available' to the phone. Now it works fine!