Have you ever been trying to check your email on the desktop with Outlook while your Pocket PC is connected, only to have it bounce back a password error? I was having this problem for days and couldn't figure it out until one of my fellow MVPs set me down the right path of enlightenment.
When you synchronize your Pocket PC, Pocket Inbox fires up in the background to sync your email. The problem is, if you've set up a POP account on the device and that folder is selected, it will also use the Internet Passthrough feature to connect to your POP3 account. Most POP3 accounts only allow one access at a time, which means your desktop Outlook client is out of luck. The solution is simple: before synchronizing with your desktop computer, make sure you've selected the ActiveSync folder before shutting down the email client (or exiting - it remembers the last folder selected).
thanks for that tip Jason. I've been dogged with intermittment pop lock messages over the last few months & hassling my email provider to sort things out assuming the problem must be at their end. Feeling very sheepish now ops:
What's funny about this is no matter how many times you learn this lesson, it will still sneak up on you and confound you at the least opportune moment! I had the same issue weeks ago and had figured to switch the email to Activesync, but today - maybe I didn't get enough sleep last night. I simply could not figure out why my desktop e-mail wouldn't connect. Low and behold it was my little buddy, highjacking and holding it hostage.
Perhaps a string on my finger would help me remember.
Brad
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HI was having this problem for days and couldn't figure it out until one of my fellow MVPs set me down the right path of enlightenment.
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This bites me every day. I do IMAP via my T-Mobile account through VPN. My laptop is already on VPN and I guess you can't do VPN through passthrough. It just fails, but is annoying.
When you synchronize your Pocket PC, Pocket Inbox fires up in the background to sync your email.
Good detective work, Jason! I've seen the inbox open up a few times unexpectedly (giving me errors because I have a fairly strange inbox configuration). I never quite put together the pieces to figure out why it was happening... let alone why it happened more often when I was at conferences!
Good detective work, Jason! I've seen the inbox open up a few times unexpectedly (giving me errors because I have a fairly strange inbox configuration). I never quite put together the pieces to figure out why it was happening... let alone why it happened more often when I was at conferences!
It was all Ed. :wink:
What's interesting is that you can watch the running applications window and it won't show up - the GUI doesn't start, but the application does fire up in some low-level mode...
After I put my PPC on the cradle to synchronize, I go directly to Inbox, then I choose the Pop3 folder. Tap the Service menu bar, and choose "Disconnect" from the menu.
After this task is performed, you can check your Mail in the Outlook without any problem.
The Activesync will run at the background, but the passthrough connection to the Inbox is temporarily disconnected. When you want to check the Pop3 mail on your PPC, just select "Connect".
This way, you don't have to change any setup for the PPC Inbox.
After I put my PPC on the cradle to synchronize, I go directly to Inbox, then I choose the Pop3 folder. Tap the Service menu bar, and choose "Disconnect" from the menu.
After this task is performed, you can check your Mail in the Outlook without any problem.
That's what I do, too. I use Eudora, and, if my Pocket PC is connected, when I try to start Eudora, I'll get an "in use" error for the E-mail account that's active on my Pocket PC.
Fortunately, the message was good enough that I was able to figure out what was going on.
Getting an Inbox Password Error?
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