When travelling it's useful to be able to read outstanding email, even if there's no/unreliable wifi or mobile signal. More often than not, however,
it reports "This message has not been downloaded from the server." How can
I get Apple Mail to download more than just message headers? It's not the 1990s anymore. I looked through various settings and can't find anything.
When travelling it's useful to be able to read outstanding email, even if there's no/unreliable wifi or mobile signal. More often than not, however,
it reports "This message has not been downloaded from the server." How can
I get Apple Mail to download more than just message headers? It's not the 1990s anymore. I looked through various settings and can't find anything.
On 2026-01-26, Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
When travelling it's useful to be able to read outstanding email, even if
there's no/unreliable wifi or mobile signal. More often than not, however, >> it reports "This message has not been downloaded from the server." How can >> I get Apple Mail to download more than just message headers? It's not the
1990s anymore. I looked through various settings and can't find anything.
It's not a setting. It's an error.
Have you gone through these troubleshooting steps yet?:
<https://www.macobserver.com/tips/how-to/message-has-not-been-downloaded-from-server/>
On 26.01.26 17:58, Chris wrote:
When travelling it's useful to be able to read outstanding email, even if
there's no/unreliable wifi or mobile signal. More often than not, however, >> it reports "This message has not been downloaded from the server." How can >> I get Apple Mail to download more than just message headers? It's not the
1990s anymore. I looked through various settings and can't find anything.
Really an interesting question I'm thinking about for quite a while. For
you it seems to be important. I can live with this behaviour. E-mail on smartphones is just a workaround for me. Once in a while I read them on
my iPhone but I never wrote mails in the last couple of years.
I assume that Apple wants to prevent the automatic download of large
mails with huge attachments. Some of the users are still cost sensitive
which I can understand.
I'm really looking forward to what solutions will come up in this thread.
When travelling it's useful to be able to read outstanding email, even if there's no/unreliable wifi or mobile signal. More often than not, however,
it reports "This message has not been downloaded from the server." How can
I get Apple Mail to download more than just message headers? It's not the 1990s anymore. I looked through various settings and can't find anything.
Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
When travelling it's useful to be able to read outstanding email, even if
there's no/unreliable wifi or mobile signal. More often than not, however, >> it reports "This message has not been downloaded from the server." How can >> I get Apple Mail to download more than just message headers? It's not the
1990s anymore. I looked through various settings and can't find anything.
Is it one particular email account that is doing this? My comcast email has been doing something similar with Apple mail on IOS for at least a year
now. My Gmail and Apple mail accounts never have that problem and messages are downloaded instantly. After a few minutes, the comcast email appears as it should. Kind of a pain in the butt, but I don't use the comcast email account for much anyway. I initiated a chat session with Comcast at one
time, but was never able to resolve the issue with them. My mac doesn't
have this problem and all email downloads right away.
On 2026-01-26, Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
When travelling it's useful to be able to read outstanding email, even if
there's no/unreliable wifi or mobile signal. More often than not, however, >> it reports "This message has not been downloaded from the server." How can >> I get Apple Mail to download more than just message headers? It's not the
1990s anymore. I looked through various settings and can't find anything.
It's not a setting. It's an error.
Have you gone through these troubleshooting steps yet?:
<https://www.macobserver.com/tips/how-to/message-has-not-been-downloaded-from-server/>
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
On 2026-01-26, Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
It's not a setting. It's an error.
When travelling it's useful to be able to read outstanding email, even if >>> there's no/unreliable wifi or mobile signal. More often than not, however, >>> it reports "This message has not been downloaded from the server." How can >>> I get Apple Mail to download more than just message headers? It's not the >>> 1990s anymore. I looked through various settings and can't find anything. >>
Have you gone through these troubleshooting steps yet?:
<https://www.macobserver.com/tips/how-to/message-has-not-been-downloaded-from-server/>
Thanks. Wasn't aware.
All my settings were pretty close. Only changed Fetch to Automatic from Hourly.
Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
When travelling it's useful to be able to read outstanding email, even if
there's no/unreliable wifi or mobile signal. More often than not, however, >> it reports "This message has not been downloaded from the server." How can >> I get Apple Mail to download more than just message headers? It's not the
1990s anymore. I looked through various settings and can't find anything. >>
Is it one particular email account that is doing this? My comcast email has been doing something similar with Apple mail on IOS for at least a year
now.
My Gmail and Apple mail accounts never have that problem and messages
are downloaded instantly.
After a few minutes, the comcast email appears as
it should. Kind of a pain in the butt, but I don't use the comcast email account for much anyway. I initiated a chat session with Comcast at one
time, but was never able to resolve the issue with them. My mac doesn't
have this problem and all email downloads right away.
On 26.01.26 22:30, Jolly Roger wrote:
On 2026-01-26, Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
It's not a setting. It's an error.
When travelling it's useful to be able to read outstanding email, even if >>> there's no/unreliable wifi or mobile signal. More often than not, however, >>> it reports "This message has not been downloaded from the server." How can >>> I get Apple Mail to download more than just message headers? It's not the >>> 1990s anymore. I looked through various settings and can't find anything. >>
Have you gone through these troubleshooting steps yet?:
<https://www.macobserver.com/tips/how-to/message-has-not-been-downloaded-from-server/>
Reading it carefully: A lot of counterproductive nonsense which in
addition is compromising security.
On 2026-01-26, Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
When travelling it's useful to be able to read outstanding email, even if
there's no/unreliable wifi or mobile signal. More often than not, however, >> it reports "This message has not been downloaded from the server." How can >> I get Apple Mail to download more than just message headers? It's not the
1990s anymore. I looked through various settings and can't find anything.
It's not a setting. It's an error.
Have you gone through these troubleshooting steps yet?:
<https://www.macobserver.com/tips/how-to/message-has-not-been-downloaded-from-server/>
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
On 2026-01-26, Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
When travelling it's useful to be able to read outstanding email,
even if there's no/unreliable wifi or mobile signal. More often than
not, however, it reports "This message has not been downloaded from
the server." How can I get Apple Mail to download more than just
message headers? It's not the 1990s anymore. I looked through
various settings and can't find anything.
It's not a setting. It's an error.
Have you gone through these troubleshooting steps yet?:
<https://www.macobserver.com/tips/how-to/message-has-not-been-downloaded-from-server/>
Yeah, I agree it's an error.
Just noticed that in the "inbox" view I can see the first line or two
of the email body, but clicking to view the email throws up the "not downloaded" warning. I see *less* of the email when opening it than I
see in the inbox view. Crazy.
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