Handspring Visor manual Communicating Using Your Handheld

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.

■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 handheld that is compatible with the Palm Computing® platform that’s close by and has an IR port.

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 must perform a

HotSync® operation either locally, using the handheld cradle, or remotely, using a modem.

The key to Mail is that it truly synchronizes the mail in the Inbox of your desktop E-Mail application with the mail on your 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 HotSync operation marks it as read in your desktop E-Mail application.

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