Re: Outlook mobile email

"The POP3 client in WinMo automatically keeps a copy of messages on
the server so the laptop or desktop can still rectrieve them. "

Why then, in e-mail advanced settings is the default set to "Delete messages from the server"?

Jeff

"Todd All***" <elecconnec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23ucOW6neIHA.1204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


"john doe" <johndoe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uSEBfbheIHA.5296@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Todd, here's my problem. In the Outlook email on the att tilt phone
there is a built-in default account called "outlook e-mail".
That works fine for syncing up email on my laptop to my phone.
I couldn't figure out how to setup my email provider on that default
account on my phone.


Because you don't. The Outlook E-Mail account is either for synching with the default "Inbox" account from Outlook on your PC, OR the default inbox on an Exchange Server, (but not both.) The predefined Outlook E-Mail account can't be setup for anything else.

Since, I couldn't figure it out I setup another account from our email provider
using pop3 on my phone. I can't sync that account up with my outlook on my laptop because
the other outlook email default account is syncing up with my laptop.

Correct.

Do you know if the new account I created in outlook on my phone that I have with my email provider keeps the mail
on the server and that way the message comes into my laptop also when I check for mail?

Yes. The POP3 client in WinMo automatically keeps a copy of messages on the server so the laptop or desktop can still rectrieve them. (I haven't used POP e-mail in years, but on older PPCs, you COULDN'T change that default even if you wanted to delete the e-mail from the server. I don't know if that's changed.

In these enlightened days of mobile e-mail, IMAP is generally a better mobile solution, since all of your devices "sync" with an e-mail server, so changes made on one device are reflected on the others.


Sorry if I don't make sense.
I just want my email to come to the default built-in outlook email on the phone
(not my new account with our email provider) from
my email provider and then sync it up with my laptop and vice vera.
Please advise.

Switch to IMAP! That's what it's for! ;-)

The Outlook account (on the device) is designed to sync with the laptop when cradled, and can't download e-mail on it's own (except if used with Exchange.) With POP, you're forced to deal with the same e-mail twice- read it and/or delete it on the device, then deal with the same e-mails again on your PC. With IMAP, any e-mails you open on the device are flagged as "read" on the PC, so you don't have to deal with it again. If you delete it on either device (PC or mobile) it gets deleted from the other on the next sync. Since both the PC and mobile both "sync" to the same server- both devices always stay in sync. Again, that's what IMAP is for. POP is a holdover from the days when we all did e-mail from our single $3000 PC, and "mobile e-mail" meant carrying a printout with you! ;-)




Thanks
"Todd All***" <elecconnec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uW5UpdZeIHA.2268@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


"john doe" <johndoe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:#7GDSBZeIHA.4396@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
How does outlook mobile email work?

Basically it works in two unrelated ways.

Do you have to setup another account to get
your email and then it moves it to the
outlook email account?
Or does it move email from the other account
to the outlook email during a sync?
Thanks


Yes. ;-) Those are the two unrelated ways!

You can either sync e-mail with your PC. Then anything in your default Outlook Inbox (and subfolders) will sync to your mobile device.

Otherwise, you can configure your device to sync with an Exchange Server, then the e-mail from IT'S inbox syncs with your device.

If you don't use Exchange, then you'll need to setup an account with a hosted Exchange service (generally with a new email account) to use Outlook Mobile email. This is how you get "push email" over-the-air. To try it, you can sign up for a free push-email account at mail2web.com.








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