After I got the ICS this morning my email folders were completely empty, every single one.
Other than Messaging, please tell me there is some hidden folder where the stock email app may have stored my messages. I've been through every visible folder and there is nothing there. Or, tell me if there's a way to back out of the update - data and everything.
Here's the story: Because my company uses POP3 email, my phone was set to 'Never Delete email from server.' That way I could still get all of my emails in Outlook on my computer -- where they actually matter. As of last night, I know I had several emails in my phone's Inbox and Sent folders, and one in the Draft folder. Like I said, this morning they are all gone...but there's more. For some reason the geniuses altered some of incoming/outgoing POP3 email settings to default. e.g., The outgoing SMTP port was changed to 25 (our partner ISP blocks it so I can't use it); and, 'Never Delete email from server' was changed to 'Delete email from server when I delete from my Inbox. (For the life of me I can't figure out why those two settings changed but my server, username, and password were all left intact?!) Consequently, the deletion of emails from my phone has caused them to also be deleted them from the POP3 mail server. Does that mean that all of the that emails I synced to my phone over the last five days (that have NOT been synced to my computer, btw, because I am on vacation) are gone FOREVER?!?
I am now well beyond frustrated. This is the second time in as many days that Verizon has $@%& something critical - first, it was my FIOS service and condescending customer service. Now this. 
Between residential and wireless I pay Verizon a ridiculous amount of money each month, more than my combined power & gas utility bills. I'm thinking that the cancellation fees are PENNIES in comparison to the satisfaction I'd feel about not giving Verizon any more of my money.
On the other side of this, since updating, I cannot get my emails to go away!! I have it set to delete from server when I delete from the handset yet every time my mails box refreshes it reloads junk emails I've deleted 10 times already!! This update is HORRIBLE
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As for your Bionic ... welcome to the exciting and sometimes frustrating world of ICS ! No, you don't have to use gmail for your mail, but for the 'display suggested names' feature to work, your contacts (the new People) need to be on your phone. Were they not on your phone before the update? There should be a way to bring them over other than retyping them. I'll find your other post and read the details there (and respond there as well).
I'm taking a shot in the dark here, klondike. I'm wondering if maybe when you set up your e-mail on your phone, it was set up to go to your web mail? In other words, that's why your contacts were visible there but they aren't physically on your phone? You could change that by either adding a new e-mail account with the proper configuration or by deleting the current one and doing it again. Here's the settings off Earthlink's page, if you don't already have them:
http://support.earthlink.net/articles/email/how-do-i-check-my-earthlink-email-on-my-android.php
That would also mean setting it up on your Bionic manually rather than letting the phone do it for you, just to ensure that you have it set up the way you want.
Since you mentioned in the other thread that the contacts are there but not the e-mail addies, you could just go contact by contact adding e-mail addresses, but that would obviously take a while if you have 200 to input.
Another option is to export your Earthlink contacts from your Earthlink web mail and then import them on your phone. Click the Export Address Book link from the Web Mail Preferences. Save that .csv file on your computer, then copy it to the SD card in your phone. Then open your People app, press menu, then import/export, then import from storage. Choose which account you want the file stored; Backup Assistant+/phone should put them on your phone and you would have the option of using Verizon's Backup Assistant software to keep them backed up ... Google would put them in your Google account and you would have the option of using Google to keep them backed up. Then follow the prompts for which contacts to import.
Hope this helps and doesn't screw things up even more. Others may have other ideas.
