[Jon Westfall]

After listening, I had a few comments readers may find useful if considering hosted exchange:

1. What happens if 4smartphone were to blink out of existence? Outlook just can't connect, it assumes that there are network troubles, and you just browse your cached copy. In this case, what I've done (on times I've inadvertently trashed my Exchange Information Store) is simply copy everything to a PST file, then re-setup outlook as necessary, and copied stuff back over.

2. Privacy issues: When exchange is setup, by default, it does not allow administrators to open users' mailboxes without some serious tweaking of permissions. Unless your hosted exchange provider is out to get you, you don't have to worry about some sys admin on their side just dropping into your mail for fun.

3. OMA can also be used on regular old 'dumbphones' that just have simple web browsers (like many people do), so it's great for people who have a non-connected PPC and a regular mobile phone with a proprietary web browser.

It really amazes me that no one has bothered creating a web interface to modify user accounts to change the FROM: header (As Jason says, 4smartphone has to modify this). It's relatively simple to do this on the admin. Side, and I know that people have written scripts before to modify active directory attributes on users, but none to modify the email addresses. Hopefully 4Smartphone or other hosted exchange services will investigate this so this issue can be resolved without an email to tech support.

Jon.