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If you, like me and others on the Apple discussion boards, find POP3 email on your iPhone touch and go at best (unread but unavailable messages anyone?), try this!

1. Register a new Gmail account, via the web.
2. In the Gmail account, go to Settings » accounts » Get mail from other accounts.
3. Add your POP3 account to Gmail, thus allowing it to regularly check your POP3 messages. Authorize as instructed. Ensure you set the option to leave messages on the server -- this means that your email program can still function as previously, getting all messages from POP3 directly.
4. Set up the Gmail account on the iPhone as an IMAP server, but when you enter your email address, use your POP3 address instead!

The above allows you to shadow your POP3 email account via the much more reliable IMAP service, without affecting or moving the messages from your POP3 email, which will still be available to your Mac/PC when you n...

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