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I've wrassled with a quirk of the iPhone's sync capability since I bought my 3gs. I'm wondering if anyone has found a work-around.

With Outlook on my work computer, I use rules to send emai to various folders. Depending on how I set up the rule, some are designated "server" and will run on the server whether or not my computer is on or not. So those emails get diverted to the proper folders regardless. Other rules, again depending on how they're set up, are designated "client" and will only work if Outlook is running. For client rules, the target emails will stay in the inbox until I run Outlook at which time they execute and move the emails to the proper folders.

The aggravating thing with the iPhone is that it doesn't show badges when email gets dropped into a folder by a It only badges emails that get left in the inbox. I have to scan through looking for any new emails that may have been processed by the server rule and get stuffed into a folder. If I turn off my computer while I'm gone, the client rules just leave email in the inbox providing badges as expected. If I leave the computer on, then email processed by client rules moves into folders just as email process by server rules.

The only ways around this I've found are: 1) trick all my rules into being client rules and turn off my computer when I'm gone or 2) turn off all the rules if I need to keep the computer on while I'm gone.

To me, this is quite irritating. If only the iPhone issued badges when email appears in any folder, not just the inbox, all would be well.

Any ideas from the list?

Bob

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