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Old 12-15-2002, 08:59 AM
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Default Re: Wireless Internet access on Pocket PC 2002- Is it worth it?

It was a decent basic article, but didn't really have much to do with wireless Internet access. Everything you talked about regarding the Pocket PC applications applied to wired access or dial-up access.

As for the E-mail client, you said:

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Originally Posted by seanturner
To make up for its cumbersome browser, the Pocket PC does have an excellent POP3/SMTP/IMAP client.
I don't know that I'd call the client "excellent". Let's look at some of the deficiencies:

* It doesn't support HTML (except hyperlinks).

* Setting up an account isn't as easy as it could be (and page 1 of the New account setup has truncated text)

* Modifying an existing account is even more difficult (you have to figure out to double-click on an item in the Service tab of the Options dialog, and you can't change the name associated with the account).

* Clicking Send in a new E-mail doesn't actually send the message, but just queues it in the Outbox (the Send button should say Queue if the message won't be sent right away).

* There's no Redirect capability (like forward but without quoting).

* There's no option to view full E-mail headers.

* Sometimes a message will get locked, such that you can't read it or delete it (although I've only had that happen once, and I think it was on my 3650, so it may have been fixed).

Steve
 
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