Chapter 5

Communicating Using

Your Companion

The previous chapter described the features of your WorkPad c3 companion that help you stay organized. This chapter describes the features that help you stay connected.

Managing desktop E-Mail: Using your companion, you can read, reply to, compose, and delete e-mail from your desktop E-Mail application while you are away from your desk.

IR beaming: The infrared port located at the top of your companion lets you send data from your companion — including entire applications — to any other infrared-enabled WorkPad companion or other Palm Computing® platform device nearby.

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 companion; but to send or receive e-mail, you must perform a

HotSync® operation either locally, using the companion cradle, or remotely, using a WorkPad c3 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 companion. 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 companion and leave it in your Inbox, your next HotSync operation marks it as read in your desktop E-Mail application.

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