09-30-2007, 08:42 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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I answered this over at PPCThoughts as well. The Outlook client on the phone is designed to work in one of three ways.
1) It is a copy of what is on your desktop. In this case it only makes the copy when you connect to the desktop, whether for getting new e-mails or sending them.
2) It can be set up as a client to an Exchange server account directly. In this case the desktop and PDA Outlook accounts are seperate and distinct, but they are both access the same account, an Exchange account, and so anything done on one would be reflected on the other. The PDA client really has nothing to do with the desktop. It connects directly with the server whether over the air, or over the network if attached to the desktop. This is really the MS prefferred option.
3) It can be set up as a client to other mail systems, such as the ATT one you apparently use. This also has nothing to do with your desktop. It gets mail from the ATT mail server independently of Outlook on your desktop. If you are hooked to your desktop, both the Outlook client on the desktop and the one on the PPC are getting the mail from the server, additionally ActiveSync is copying what the desktop Outlook got from the server to your PDA. Typically though, such mail systems remove the mail from the server once a desktop client has retrieved them, so they may not be available on the server once you have them in your desktop Outlook for the ATT account on the PP to get them. The PPC client is set to leave messages on the server, by default, so you can eventually retreive them at the desk.
Synchronizing this sort of mail system is a server limitation, not really an Outlook/MS one. You could make this work a little better for you if you set your deskktop account for ATT to not delete messages off the server, for a number of days, or until deleted from the trash. and don't set up ActiveSync to sync mail. Then the mail client on your PPC and PC will operated fairly independently. You will see the same e-mail on both and will be able to respond from either, and delete from either. What I don't think you will see is your responses in the sent items of the other device, and you can't sync them. You can mitigate that by just cc'ing yourself on outbound mail.
The other option is to look into the Hosted Exchange service mentioned. It would actually be more proffesional looking for a business account anyway than an ATT/Yahoo mail address.
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