Problems with AOL e-mail and Droid Charge

[Richs10]

Problems with AOL e-mail and Droid Charge

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After setting up my AOL email account on my Charge, it has been syncing new messages ok, but I've been having other problems:

- Syncing AOL mail: I have the Charge set to sync 50 emails (set up the same way as my Comcast Account) but the AOL account pulls up the last 50 old emails and delivers them to the phone. (Comcast does not do this). If I delete these old messages, it just pulls up the same amount of even older mail. Very frustrating. Because of the 2nd problem below, some of these messages were actually deleted on my AOL account before I realized what was happening. It seems I have to just keep 50 old mails on my Charge to prevent this from happening. Any ideas?

- Second problem (kinda related) Deleting Old Mail: When I delete AOL emails I have read on the Charge, they are also deleted from my 'old mail' folder on AOL and sent to deleted mail. This is not how it worked on my BB Storm2. After deleting them with the Storm, the AOL mail would show them as read and put them in 'old mail' unless I told the Storm to delete them from the server. I cannot find any "choice" option on the Charge. I hate this because the "deleted mail" folder on AOL dumps its contents much more quickly than the "old mail" folder. How do I stop this from happening?

FYI, both Comcast and g-mail are working as they should.....

Thanks,

[WCMack · Accepted solution]

Dear Richs10,

As to the second problem, I have seen this before in other threads. The only solution I can come up with is to delete the AOL account and set it up on the phone from scratch. The reason for this is that the ONLY time you are able to see the option for leaving email on the server (or removing them) after reading on the phone is during the account setup process. After the account is set up, there seems to be no way to access this setting again. Kind of dumb, IMHO, but that seems to be the case.

If you need step-by-step walkthrough of the account setup, PM me.

[Richs10]

Thanks for the advice.

I had to try several different ways of re-creating the account but it looks like setting it up as an "Others" POP3 account got rid of the "# of e-mails to Synchronize" question and for the "Remove from Server?" question to finally appear.

I don't have access to all my subfolders like I did with the direct AOL setup, but that's probably better security- wise, for a mobile device anyway.

Again, thanks for the help!

Rich