digi-quest

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Published: 12:00am, 15 Jun 2008

My iPhone downloads all my messages from Google's Gmail, which can be expensive when there are large attachments. How can I change the service so I can just get the first line or two of an e-mail then decide later if I want to download the whole message?

Jimmy, Jardine's Lookout

DQ: The service you are looking for downloads the headers, or the first few lines, of an e-mail then gives you the option to download the entire message. This saves a great deal on bandwidth and cost. You can get this service from most service providers but it is almost always exclusive to a specific operating system - such as Symbian or Windows Mobile - and does not handle Gmail.

This is exactly the kind of problem one would expect with 'non-supported' hardware. The iPhone has not been officially released in Hong Kong, so these devices are 'hacked' to work here. That means you cannot get official help. There are, however, a few clever ways to handle your problem. Go to www.macosxhints.com then type 'Use two Gmail accounts' in Search. Click on the article by 'blafusel'. It will show you how to set up a new Gmail account to which you can forward e-mails you want on your iPhone while keeping the other e-mails for download later.

When I download a file and it gets cut off in the middle, for whatever reason, how do I find the half-downloaded file so I can erase it?

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