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Ethereal
02-08-2004, 03:54 AM
I recently "upgraded" from a Treo 600 to an iPaq 4350, and one thing I am not impressed with is the way the 4350's Inbox handles messages. Specifically, rather than behaving as a client (like Outlook does on my desktop) and downloading copies of new messages for me to subsequently do with as I please, each time it checks the POP server, it "syncs" with the server, which means that it deletes messages that have been downloaded by Outlook onto my PC. This means that I cannot refer back to any message on my iPaq once I have checked mail from my PC--they are gone from the iPaq with the next checking of the mail. Can anyone help me:

1.) Change this behaviour so that the iPaq Inbox will act as an independent client, downloading new mail while keeping old ones whether they are still on the server or not (I have not seen any configuration option that would seem to invoke this), or

2.) Find a substitute 3-rd party email application that will do this? (Hey, HandSpring's lowly beta client did exactly this on Palm, so someone has to be doing it for PPC...)

dhettel
02-08-2004, 04:09 AM
Have you tried this;

Start Inbox
Accounts | New Account... |
You'll setup your account on Screens 1 to 5,
On screen 5 tap on Options
on Options 2/3 do not check "Only display messages from the last X days"
on Options 3/3 change to Get full copy of message

This should set you up with a separate account from Outlook on your PC. When you "Sync" this account it will reach out to your POP or IMAP account and download from it.

Eitel
02-08-2004, 02:40 PM
I have one word for you... nPOP (http://www.wibble-wobble.com/wince/npopw/)

iPaqDude
02-08-2004, 09:03 PM
I'll second the nPop... While I have been waiting for @Mail to arrive - which I will probably switch back to when it does arrive - I have been using nPop. Fast, easy to use - after a bit of a learning curve - and - best of all - free..... :wink:

Ommadawn
02-09-2004, 12:08 AM
I've been using the built in email client until now, but thought I'd try npopw after seeing the praise in these posts. I downloaded and copied the ARM version over to my 1930 (WM 2003), but when I ran it, enocuntered problems.

I entered all the account settings ok. After that, though, I don't get any sort of menu or buttons to do anything. The menu bar at the bottom of the screen is either blank, or is a menu bar from another program that may be running at the moment.

Is there a problem with WM 2003??

Craig.

Ommadawn
02-09-2004, 12:15 AM
:oops: DOH!

It helps if I download and install the proper ARM version, it seems. I originally installed the staright ARM version. I went back, grabbed the PPC 2002 ARM version and tried that, and it worked!

Ignore my previous post as an exercise in stupidity.... :lol:

Craig.

Ethereal
02-10-2004, 05:03 AM
Eitel:

Thanks for the nPop suggestion--looks promising. Is there any way to convince WM 2003 to include it in the Start menu (or even bind it to the Mail button)?

Hey--T608 plus iPaq 4350 = wireless heaven!

dmacburry2003
02-11-2004, 04:55 AM
Eitel:

Thanks for the nPop suggestion--looks promising. Is there any way to convince WM 2003 to include it in the Start menu (or even bind it to the Mail button)?

Hey--T608 plus iPaq 4350 = wireless heaven!

Install nPop, then go to Settings, and find Menu. Check the boxes to add programs to your Start Menu. Then go back to Personal Settings and click the Buttons icon. Select the button corresponding with E-mail and look through the drop down list to select the program for it.

Oh, and I don't mean to be a bit rude, but you should go search the forums for answers to your questions like this. A lot of people ask things like that every day.

PS: Please watch your language or I know they will lock this post on you :wink:

Steven Cedrone
02-11-2004, 05:22 PM
Moved the "4350 Bluetoothed w/T608 vs. Trea 600" posts here. (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=24324) I think that subject is worthy of it's own thread!

Steve

Ethereal
02-11-2004, 08:00 PM
Oh, and I don't mean to be a bit rude, but you should go search the forums for answers to your questions like this. A lot of people ask things like that every day.


Actually, I already knew both of those procedures, but the problem is further "up the food chain:" PPC doesn't acknowledge nPopw as an application. If I manually copy it to the device, and navigate to it with file viewer, I can launch it, but it is not on the "Menu" list of apps, and it doesn't appear in SpasticSync's "Add/Remove" window--the one that says "If it doesn't appear on this list, it doesn't belong on your device..." :(

dmacburry2003
02-11-2004, 09:10 PM
Can you make a shortcut and copy it via file explorer to the Start Menu?

davea
02-28-2004, 11:19 PM
PPC doesn't acknowledge nPopw as an application. If I manually copy it to the device, and navigate to it with file viewer, I can launch it, but it is not on the "Menu" list of apps, and it doesn't appear in SpasticSync's "Add/Remove" window--the one that says "If it doesn't appear on this list, it doesn't belong on your device..." :(

This exactly my problem with nPOPw. I can't get it added to a list of
applications loaded on my PPC 2003. How do you create a "shortcut"
to add it to the list of installed programs.? Any assistance on this item
would be appreciated.

Pat Logsdon
02-29-2004, 10:05 AM
To add a program to the start or programs menu, do the following:

1) Navigate to the folder where the .exe file for the program is stored.
2) Tap and hold on the .exe file
3) Select "Copy"
4) Navigate to Windows/Start Menu
5) If you want the program in your Start Menu, tap and hold on the Start Menu folder and select "Paste Shortcut". You should now see the item in your start menu. If you want the program in your Program menu, tap and hold the Programs folder, and select "Paste Shortcut". You should now see the item in that menu.

Once the shortcut is in one of those locations, it should show up in the drop-down menu on the button mapping screen.

:mrgreen:

Sven Johannsen
03-01-2004, 03:20 AM
...each time it checks the POP server, it "syncs" with the server, which means that it deletes messages that have been downloaded by Outlook onto my PC. This means that I cannot refer back to any message on my iPaq once I have checked mail from my PC--they are gone from the iPaq with the next checking of the mail. Can anyone help me:

After the PC gets the mail, removing it from the server, won't the INBOX sync pull that mail into your ActiveSync service on your PPC. Even if it is removed from your PoP service on the PPC, because of it's removal from the mail server, it should be there in the AS Inbox. Unless of course you are not syncing Inbox.