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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
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Originally Posted by Phillip Dyson
You can supply 4smartphone with the pop information for your existing account and it will poll the account every so often
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Interesting stuff - I haven't used POP3 in years, so I didn't even know that was an option. :-) |
From what I know of 4smartphone's service, it only polls every so often (maybe around every 15 minutes, but I'm not sure). The easier solution is, if you can, forward your mail to your hosted exchange account.
Because I'm anal, I actually keep 2 copies of messages sent to important email boxes (such as my @pocketpcthoughts.com address). I setup my important accounts to keep a copy of my mail in that POP box and forward a copy to my exchange server. I then have a copy of outlook running on a spare computer at home that pulls from those POP boxes every 5 hours and dumps into a giant PST, which gets auto archived to delete anything older than 14 days. So the result is that if I'm unsure about something being forwarded or not correctly, or if my exchange server is unavailable for whatever reason, I have a local copy of the last 14 days.
And regarding setting up exchange: It isn't that bad, (assuming you have an MCSE...), the biggest problem I predict server admins would have running it from home would be correctly routing outgoing email, as many people can't setup the appropriate DNS entries for a cable or DSL connection. If you can, then you still have a lot of headaches if you don't have exchange training (like me - I didn't take exchange as one of my electives when doing my MCSE, so I had to stumble through it). My point is, unless you have a lot of time on your hands, hosted is probably the way to go.