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Chapter 7

Communicating Using Your Handheld
The previous chapter described the features of your Visor handheld
computer that help you stay organized. This chapter describes the
features that help you stay connected.
■Managing desktop E-Mail: Using your handheld, you can read, reply
to, compose, and delete e-mail from your desktop E-Mail
application while you’re away from your desk. (Third-party
software required, sold separately.)
■IR beaming: The infrared port located on the side of your handheld
lets you send data from your handheld — including entire
applications — to any other Palm OS® handheld that’s close by and
has an IR port. You can also use the infrared port to perform
HotSync operations. See “IR HotSync operations” in Chapter 8 for
details.

Managing desktop E-Mail

away from your desk

Mail lets you manage the e-mail that you send and receive
through the E-Mail application on your desktop computer. You
can read, reply to, compose, and delete e-mail on your
handheld. To send or receive e-mail, you mu st perform a
HotSync® operation either locally, using the handheld cradle or
infrared port, or re motely, using a mod em.
The key to Mail is that it truly synchronizes the mail in the Inbox of
your desktop E-Mail application with the mail on yo ur handheld. For
example, if you delete e-mail items from Mail, your next HotSync
operation also deletes the e-mail items from your desktop E-Mail
application, so you never have to delete e-mail items twice. Similarly,
if you read an e-mail item on your handheld and leave it in your
Inbox, your next H otSync operation marks it as read i n your desktop
E-Mail application.