Many of us have heard by now about the previously slow iPhone syncing. It was apparently updated with the new 2.1 software update. But, I have recently been experiencing a slow sync on my iPhone when it came to email. I was getting a “Syncing mail accounts with ePhone” (ePhone being the name of my iPhone). I looked on the web with no luck.
That is until I came upon someone else having a problem with her iPhone also. Her mail sync was also taking a long time. The suggestions told her that it might be due to an IMAP email account. She did not solve it with a change to POP3, but rather by syncing each of mail, contacts etc. one at a time.
But, it got me thinking. Perhaps my large IMAP folder was the problem. So, I just let it run through the sync. It worked. I think this means that I need to sync more often or run MailSteward each day and prune old emails quicker.
One step foward and two steps back? Perhaps not.
