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Good article Jason. I use the hosted Exchange service from 1and1.com and have been happy with their service. The pricing for these services has become cheap enough to make it a viable solution for home users.
One thing that I would add to this article is Windows Mobile's support for SSL encryption. If you use POP or IMAP for retrieving email via wireless connections (Wi-Fi or cellular) there is a possibility that your email is in cleartext and readable to people using Sniffers. Many people still don't enable WEP or WPA to secure their home wireless networks, and many Wi-Fi hotspots don't use encryption. To be confident that your email is secure in transit over wireless connections, I recommend using SSL, which Windows Mobile supports. You will need to use an e-mail or web-hosting service provider that supports SSL security for email. (SSH is another method for securing email, but that requires software beyond what is built-in to Windows Mobile.)
I believe that all synchronization with Exchange servers is encrypted by default, so that would be another good reason to use an Exchange hosting service.
A final reason for me to use an Exchange hosting service to synchronize email is that I feel it has better performance when transferring email. This may just be my perception, but it just seems to me that Outlook Mobile is built primarily for syncing wiht Exchange and the POP and IMAP support were add-ons.
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