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Outlook. Choose ToolsÆE-mail AccountsÆE-mail. Click “View or<br />

Change E-Mail Accounts”ÆNextÆyour account nameÆChangeÆMore<br />

SettingsÆAdvanced. Turn off “Leave a copy of messages on the server.”<br />

Outlook Express. Choose ToolsÆAccountsÆyour account<br />

nameÆPropertiesÆAdvanced. Turn off “Leave a copy of messages on<br />

the server.”<br />

With this arrangement, both machines download the same mail; messages<br />

aren’t deleted until you delete them from the bigger <strong>com</strong>puter.<br />

Here’s another tip that may help : Turn on “Always Cc Myself” (in SettingsÆMail). It<br />

ensures that when you send a message from your <strong>iPhone</strong>, it fires off a copy to your<br />

own email address—so that when you return to your desk, you’ll have copies of all<br />

the messages you wrote from the road. (Yeah, they’ll be in your Inbox and not your<br />

Sent Mail, but at least it’s something.)<br />

And explore the possibility of getting (or forwarding your mail to) an IMAP<br />

account like Yahoo Mail, which avoids this whole mess. Then whatever<br />

changes you make on one machine are magically reflected on the other.<br />

Reading Mail<br />

In general, your <strong>iPhone</strong> checks for new messages automatically every 15, 30,<br />

or 60 minutes, depending on your preferences (page 253), as well as each<br />

time you open the Mail program.<br />

There are two notable exceptions:<br />

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Manual checking. You can turn off automatic checking altogether. If,<br />

in SettingsÆMailÆAuto-Check, you choose Manual, then your <strong>iPhone</strong><br />

won’t check for new messages except when you tap the Check button<br />

(ƒ) within the Mail program.<br />

Real-time delivery. If you have a free Yahoo Mail account, you get a delicious<br />

perk: real-time email delivery. That’s also called “push” email, well<br />

known to BlackBerry addicts; it means that new messages show up on<br />

your <strong>iPhone</strong> as they arrive.<br />

There’s nothing to turn on here, no options; if you have a Yahoo Mail<br />

account, your messages show up as they arrive, automatically. (Yahoo<br />

mail, as noted earlier, is also an IMAP account, meaning that when you<br />

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