Thread: Email app question
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awmoore is offline awmoore
2006-10-31 , 07:06
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Hi! Thanks! I was beginning to think either everyone except me totally understands this, or has totally given up on it

But the behavior I find does not completely match with your theories:

Originally Posted by HarryN
1) If you run it in "headers only" - it only downloads the headers. Opening the email causes it to only temporarily download the email, not perm AFAIK.

If you delete the header, you have deleted the email. (I think). If you just close the email, you can still retrieve it from the server.
Start from the beginning. Go on the net and download the headers. The new messages show a little grayed-out, closed envelope icon to the far left. Choose one and click on it. The message is displayed for you in a new window. Read the message and then close (click on upper right corner "X") the message window. The icon in the main email window is now a not-grayed-out open envelope. I'm pretty sure this means the contents are resident on your 770. In fact, if I go to the wifi connection selector and disconnect from the network, I can still view the contents (body) of any message that I had previously read and closed, i.e. any that has the not-grayed-out open envelope. I think that proves that it's resident on the 770, since it can't acquire the body from the network with the net disconnected.

I'm really hoping for some way to return it to the original grayed-out closed envelope state -- that is, the contents not on my 770 but the header visible in the email app for me to click on to retrieve and view the contents again if I want to .

Really surprised at the weirdness of this email app! I am not a fan of the mixing multiple inbox thing, but I conceptually got ahold of that pretty readily. This "I want to delete the body but not the header" thing was harder for me to wrap my head around what it is and is not doing.

Check it out -- I'd be pleased if you proved me wrong!