The “over the air sync only” entry means that the vendor didn’t supply any software but Outlook data can be synced directly via a Mail app. In most cases, transferring data is also possible by connecting the phone to your computer via a USB cable. The provided software either allows for Calendar and Contact sync from Outlook, data and media sync or some other additional functionality. Sync softwareīelow are links for software provided by some popular mobile phone brands and mobile operating systems.
On your smartphone or tablet you can connect via your Mail app with Exchange ActiveSync or use the Outlook app for Android or iOS to sync your mailbox. Outlook can directly connect to Exchange mailboxes.
If your mailbox is hosted on an Exchange server, there is no need to install anything. Note: You can switch to the email service and keep your current email address as well if you do not want to switch to an address.
As a POP3 account can only download from the Inbox folder on the mail server, you won’t be actually synchronizing anything. You can configure your POP3 account to leave a copy on the server to receive new emails on multiple devices. Over the air sync basically means that your mobile device is using its data plan or WiFi capabilities to directly synchronize itself with the mail server rather than via locally installed software and a USB cable.
In an ever more connected world with Cloud based computing and people owning multiple mobile devices, the trend is to move away from syncing mobile devices with Outlook via local synchronization software and towards “over the air sync”. In some cases, you can use a local software application to sync your phone directly with your computer or from another phone. Nowadays, that depends more on the mail account type that you are using as most phones and mail apps only allow “over the air sync”.
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Hope this tips will definitely help you to fix the email automatically getting deleted on ur Smartphone. Simple as that and now your emails won’t magically disappear. You can also set the duration you want those messages to remain in the server.