Originally Posted by Fudnock

The particular reason i would want to set it up that way is that I would like to sync my Calandar for longer than a week or month back. But you can't select just the calandar for the past year. it does everything. Working for an ISP between customer emails, vendors, interoffice stuff and what not, my exchange file is about 3 gig. The ipad won't hold 3 gig. So, if i could delete it, and have it just delete from my phone, that would be great. But if it removes it from the exchange server, I can't have that.

I'm not sure if anyone really answered your original question but either way when you delete an email from your exchange account on the iPad it moves it to the deleted folder on outlook (for example) you have set up at your workstation.you would then have to manually delete it from outlook.... And depending on how you have exchange handling deleted emails it may stay in the server for another designated amount of time for possible recovery if need be.

The iPad acts like the child in this relationship and holds everything the parent says. It may be able to delete stuff but the parent will have the "master" copy so to speak... This by the way pertains to exchange and iPads and iPhones.

Originally Posted by DefBref

The whole point of using exchange is that it keeps all your inbox and folders on any device you access it in sync, so you delete something and it appears deleted everywhere. There should be no such option as delete on phone only when using an exchange account, I don't really understand why you would want to.

Actually, that is not true at all. The point of Exchange is it is a mail server. Anyway, you should be able to set any mobile device to not delete mail from the server. This is exactly how my DroidX is configured. The reason one wants to do this is to keep your messages on the device lean, but still be able to get them on your desktop client. If the iPad cannot do that then it is a missing feature.

-Jim