Originally Posted by
fatbaby2
Is that right? iPhone doesn't store emails on the device itself, but actually redownloads the entire inbox (or most recent messages or whatever) every time it refreshes? That can't possibly be right. Was it just a glitch or is this SOP? It just seems so... inefficient.
Unbeknown to me — until I caught it out actively doing it — my iPhone would re-download my email account contents every hour or so, all 300 of the most recent emails. It would do this again, and again, and churn up my data in the process. That’s why I hit 20MB in the space of three hours.