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on an iOS device. As a result, Mail in Mavericks is likely to display messages from
such servers
before
Mail in iOS 7.
Push delivery, where applicable, works only with your Inbox and, for iCloud and
Exchange accounts only, with other mailboxes you explicitly set up (see
Change
In addition, note that even with iCloud and Exchange accounts, although Mail
pushes new messages to your device immediately, it does not push
changes
made on other devices, such as moved or deleted messages. So, if your iOS 7 Mail
icon says you have one unread message, and you delete that message on your
Mac, the “1” badge won't disappear right away; you may need to open Mail to
force it to resynchronize its Inboxes.
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Limited mailbox syncing:
Related to the last point…whereas the Mavericks
version of Mail caches complete copies of all messages in all IMAP and Exchange
mailboxes, syncing them in the background, iOS 7 Mail doesn't (which is a good
thing, because that would chew up lots of cellular bandwidth and storage space).
Instead, for IMAP accounts, Mail syncs only the Inbox in the background. For
Exchange accounts, you can specify how far back to sync email messages (from a
day to a month, or all messages), and as I mentioned in the last point, you can se-
lect, for iCloud and Exchange accounts, which mailboxes should have their mes-
sages pushed to your device. As for any other mailboxes, Mail synchs them only
when you tap on them to display their contents.
This may be significant if you use server-side filters or rules to sort your mes-
sages into mailboxes, because mailboxes other than Inbox won't indicate that
they contain any new, unread messages until you manually select them.
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No group addressing:
This one baffles me—and every time a new version of
iOS appears without it, I shake my head in disbelief. The Contacts app on iOS
displays any groups you've set up on your Mac (although it doesn't let you add
new groups or edit group members). However, there's no way to specify a group
as the recipient of a message in Mail. You have to add. Each. Person. Individu-
ally. This makes no sense to me, but for whatever reason, there's no convenient
way to send a message to a Contacts group in iOS 7 Mail. However…
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Autocomplete for multiple addressees:
If you regularly send messages to
the same set of addresses (for example, your spouse and your mother), Mail no-
tices this and offers the combination of addresses as an option when autocom-
