Re: E-Mails with Pocket PC's


"Elaine" wrote in message...
> My husband and I are very very new to the pocket PC world. I have an HP
> iPAQ and he has a Dell Axim. We each have our own desk top on a wireless
> network which we use ActiveSyn to sync our pocket PCs. We can access the
> internet over the wireless connection so we know that's working. The
e-mail
> on the pocket PC will send and receive during syncronization. We can
> receive e-mail over the wireless connection but we can't send. Since we
> both have the same problem I think it has to be something wrong in the set
> up or we're not understanding things correctly. We have set Outlook 2002
as
> our default e-mail program. Can anyone help us set this up to sent e-mail
> over the wireless connection? Thanks
>
> Elaine

I think you are crossing "synchronizing" with just being internet-connected.

The email programs you are using on the PocketPC's, are they "real internet"
programs or just programs that "synchronize" from a PC source?

(Forgive me for not knowing PocketPC, as I use a modded BE-300 and older
WinCE's.)

If it is a "real internet" program you are using for email on the PPC's,
check the SMTP host address.

I have a wireless network also, but I only use ActiveSync (and "PC Connect")
to initially set them up and install the programs that have to be installed
over ActiveSync (or "PC Connect"), and every now and then plug 'em into the
cradle to sync contacts. I use them as if they are completetly standalone
computers, not gadgets hanging off a PC by an ActiveSync leash. The
"synchronization" of email between the PDA's and PC's is simple, I simply
config the PDA's to not delete messages on the email servers after they
download then -- so the PC's will get 'em too. Then, once in a while, I'll
plug 'em into the cradle so they can sync contacts and "sent emails" stored
in the PDA's.

Only the programs that are installed by installers have to come over AS/PC.
For the programs that are standalone .cab files, I can just grab them over
the air by Microsoft fileshare or FTP.

ActiveSync over the air? Never tried that. Seems messy. I never really
got into the whole "sync" thing anyway. My older WinCE (2.11) came with
that stupid and useless "Microsoft Internet Channels" program, so the very
first thing I did was hunt down a real web browser. The built-in email
program ,"Inbox", was meant to be based around "synchronization", so I
hunted down a real email program.

All of them are running like complete standalone computers now, with email,
web, instant messengers, MP3 players (MP3's streamed from LAN, or off
internet -- from my LAN -- when away from home), VNC, ect. One of my PDA's
is even running a web server, complete with dynamic DNS resolution to a
domain for when on the road!



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