Saturday, August 13, 2005
How Do You Synchronize Your Email?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THOUGHT" @ 01:00 AM
There are a number of options on the Pocket PC for getting your email and I am wondering how many of you do it. I have a number of POP3 accounts set up but for work, I used to use IMAP4 to my Exchange 2000 server at the office.
While it worked OK, I never set it up to automatically sync. It took forever and was a HUGE bandwidth hog on the device (GPRS) and 3 out of 4 times, it would simply fail because either my Pocket PC or Nokia phone that I used as a bluetooth modem needed a soft reset because of the oh-most-excellent-I-never-have-a-problem-with-it bluetooth connection method. :roll:
Now, I am on a PDA2K which has GPRS built in and our company recently moved to Exchange 2003. Exchange ActiveSync flat rocks. :rock on dude!: I am amazed at how fast it is, even over GPRS. The compression between the Pocket PC and server really speeds things up, especially file attachments like Excel and Word that compress really well. Having Exchange Sync has also allowed me to kill one of my filters that auto-forwarded emails from particular individuals to my MMS account. During business hours, I am synchronizing every 5 minutes and after hours and on weekends, I have Exchange set to ping my Pocket PC with an SMS to force a sync. I don't like having the SMS option on all of the time though. I don't know if it is a bug in the PDA2K or in Windows Mobile 2003SE, but when the fake SMS messages come in, they wake the device all of the way up, burning lots of battery power as the backlight even comes on. The 5-minute sync leaves the screen off, just sounding an alarm and flashing the red LED if a new message comes in.
If you have more than one account, use your most important email account as a basis for answering the poll but feel free to include additional information in the thread!
While it worked OK, I never set it up to automatically sync. It took forever and was a HUGE bandwidth hog on the device (GPRS) and 3 out of 4 times, it would simply fail because either my Pocket PC or Nokia phone that I used as a bluetooth modem needed a soft reset because of the oh-most-excellent-I-never-have-a-problem-with-it bluetooth connection method. :roll:
Now, I am on a PDA2K which has GPRS built in and our company recently moved to Exchange 2003. Exchange ActiveSync flat rocks. :rock on dude!: I am amazed at how fast it is, even over GPRS. The compression between the Pocket PC and server really speeds things up, especially file attachments like Excel and Word that compress really well. Having Exchange Sync has also allowed me to kill one of my filters that auto-forwarded emails from particular individuals to my MMS account. During business hours, I am synchronizing every 5 minutes and after hours and on weekends, I have Exchange set to ping my Pocket PC with an SMS to force a sync. I don't like having the SMS option on all of the time though. I don't know if it is a bug in the PDA2K or in Windows Mobile 2003SE, but when the fake SMS messages come in, they wake the device all of the way up, burning lots of battery power as the backlight even comes on. The 5-minute sync leaves the screen off, just sounding an alarm and flashing the red LED if a new message comes in.
If you have more than one account, use your most important email account as a basis for answering the poll but feel free to include additional information in the thread!
