12 Using Messaging

NOTE: To access Messaging Help on your HP iPAQ, from the Start menu, tap Help > Messaging.

Understanding Messaging

When using Messaging, you can send and receive messages in three ways: Internet e-mail, text messages, and Multimedia Message Service (MMS) messages. These accounts are already created in your HP iPAQ and are described more later in this chapter. The different types of messages can be:

•Internet e-mail ---- messages sent and received by using the e-mail address you received from your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or your employer.

•Text messages ---- messages sent and received through your mobile phone service provider by using a phone number as the message address.

•MMS messages --- messages sent and received through your mobile phone service provider by using a phone number or an

e-mail address as the message address.

Additional accounts can be set up on your HP iPAQ such as a Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) or an Internet Message Access Protocol 4 (IMAP4) account. POP3 and IMAP4 are protocols used to retrieve

e-mail from a mail server. The newer version, IMAP4, is similar to POP3 but supports some additional features. For example, with IMAP4, you can search through your e-mail messages using keywords while the messages reside on the mail server. You then can choose which messages to download to your HP iPAQ.

Using Folders

Each e-mail account, text message account, and MMS account has its own folder hierarchy with five default folders: Inbox, Outbox, Deleted Items, Drafts, and Sent Items. The messages you send and receive through the mail account are stored in these folders. Also, you can create additional folders within each hierarchy. The Deleted Items folder contains messages that have been deleted on the HP iPAQ. The behavior of the Deleted Items and Sent Items folders depends on the Inbox options you have chosen.

The behavior of the folders you create depends on whether you are using ActiveSync, MMS, text messages, or a POP3 or IMAP4 mail server.

If you use ActiveSync, e-mail messages in the Outlook Inbox folder will automatically be synchronized with your HP iPAQ. You can select to synchronize additional folders by designating them for ActiveSync; however, when you synchronize wirelessly over the air using Exchange ActiveSync, only the Calendar, Contacts, and E-mail folders will synchronize. The folders you create and the messages you move will then

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