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Old 05-08-2006, 02:30 PM
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Default How Many Email Accounts Are Set Up On Your Pocket PC?

Since getting into converged devices with my PDA2K, then getting a Windows Mobile 5 device that finally checked your email in all accounts on schedule, I have been more inclined to set up email accounts on my device, which often alerts me to emails before I bother checking on my desktop.



I have my work email of course, synchronizing with Exchange 2003 SP2. All of my other accounts are POP3 accounts, like GMail, my personal account, my account here and a few others. My total is 5. I have disabled the hotmail sync with a registry hack and am not counting the SMS and MMS accounts on my device. I do have all of my accounts set to sync every 30-60 minutes except my work account, which is using push. How many do you have set up?
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Old 05-08-2006, 04:05 PM
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I'm so glad that WM 5 finally fixed the "feature" of only having scheduled sync happen on the selected account. Now if it would actually empty my deleted items on connect/disconnect rather than make me do it manually, I'd be estatic.
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Old 05-08-2006, 04:12 PM
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Just my Exchange inbox. Nice and simple.

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Old 05-08-2006, 04:42 PM
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I have more accounts setup than will fit in the default inbox program. I have my primary accounts setup in messaging plus my hotmail since it cannot be checked with another program. Then i have everything except hotmail also setup in nPOP which is what i use on my desktop, laptop, tablet, and flashdrive. and they all share the same data and config files.

None of them auto check exept my work account which is pushed to the device but only when i am at work. I turn on push email at 8:00 and shut it off at 17:00. Everything else i just check manually through out the day when i know i might have time to read some of them or more often i if i am expecting something.
 
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Old 05-08-2006, 05:32 PM
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Probably a better question - does the basic inbox functionality only download new messages from POP3 accounts? Reason I ask is that FlexMail insists on re-downloading everything within my timeframe after it's been shutdown and re-started. Same program session, all works as expected, but otherwise it's pretty unusable as a POP3 solution just because I don't want to re-download old messages - takes too long and I've already cleared them from my device.

If it supports multiple and downloads correctly, I may just give the other accounts a try.

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Old 05-08-2006, 06:32 PM
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I have my exchange push account then one imap account that I check every couple of weeks. Sometimes I wonder if I should even setup that imap account as I never use it.
 
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Old 05-08-2006, 07:44 PM
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Probably a better question - does the basic inbox functionality only download new messages from POP3 accounts? Reason I ask is that FlexMail insists on re-downloading everything within my timeframe after it's been shutdown and re-started. Same program session, all works as expected, but otherwise it's pretty unusable as a POP3 solution just because I don't want to re-download old messages - takes too long and I've already cleared them from my device.

If it supports multiple and downloads correctly, I may just give the other accounts a try.

-Pete
the built in messaging app only downloads new mail messages.
I do not like the way flexmail/webis mail deals with pop. The messaging app behaives like you are syncing your popmail account. say I check my email on my ppc, then check it on my pc and delete a message. the next time I check the mail on my ppc the message I deleted from my desktop actually goes away on my ppc.
So basically when you send and receive email on a pop account with messaging it changes what is in your inbox to reflect what is actually on your pop server. If a message is already down it does not redownload it. if a message is no longer on the server it will no longer be in your inbox on your ppc.
 
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Old 05-17-2006, 12:40 AM
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I still think Symbian had it right - all messages (SMS, email, MMS, Fax, etc) are consilidated into a single inbox. The "transport" is known for each message, so you reply via the right mechanism (or you can simply switch transport).
 
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Old 05-17-2006, 12:49 AM
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On a more serious note, anyone know how to get Pocket Outlook back? Flexmail took over as my default e-mail program, changed the shortcut for pocket outlook, and when I try to run poutlook.exe nothing happens.

HTC Wizard (Cingular 8125) if that makes a difference.

Any way short of a hard-reset to get it back? I like FlexMail for some things, but losing Pocket Outlook really is not good.

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Old 05-17-2006, 12:49 AM
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I still think Symbian had it right - all messages (SMS, email, MMS, Fax, etc) are consilidated into a single inbox. The "transport" is known for each message, so you reply via the right mechanism (or you can simply switch transport).
I could not handle that. When I am looking at my work email I do not want to see all my personal email. And when i'm looking at my personal email I definitely do not want to see my work email.
I cannot imagine having sms and mms all thrown into the mis as well. what a nightmare. (but that's just me)
 
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