Intermec 700 Inbox: Sending and Receiving E-mail Messages

WindowsMobile 2003—Chapter 2

77700Series Color Mobile Computer User’sManual

Inbox: Sending and Receiving E-mail Messages

To switch to Inbox on your 700 Color Computer, tap Start >Inbox.

You can receive Internet e-mail messages and SMS messages i n Inbox. In-

ternet e-mail messagesare sent by using an address you receive from your

Internetservice provider (ISP) or your employer. SMS messagesare sent

and received through your wireless phoneservice provider by using a

phone number as the message address.

You can send and receive e-mail by synchronizing with your desktop,or

by connecting to a Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) or I nternet Message Ac-

cess Protocol 4 (IMAP4) mail server. You nee d to set up an e-mail account

for each method that you use except for M icrosoft ActiveSync, which is set

upbydefault.TheActiveSyncfolderonyour700ColorComputerstores

messages that you send and receive through synch ronization with a desk-

top. Accountnames appear as folders in the folder list (located on the left,

under the navigation bar) in the Inbox message list.

With synchronization,messages are synchronized between the device In-

box and the PC Inbox by using ActiveSync and Microsoft Exch ange or

Microsoft Outlook. For more information, see “Synchronizing E-mail Mes-

sages”below.

When connectingto a POP3 or IMAP4 server, you use a modem to con-

nect toyour Internet service provider (ISP), or a modemor Ethernet card

to connect to the local area network to which your e-mail server is connec-

ted. You can also use your phone to connect by using a cellular line con-

nection. For more information, see “Connecting to a Mail Server”onpage

79.

After selecting Inbox for synchronizationin ActiveSync, e-mail messages

are synchronizedas part of the general synchronization process.During

synchronization:

SMessages are copied from the Inbox folder on your desktop or the

Microsoft Exchange server to the Inbox folder on your 700 Color Com-

puter. (Note that you can only synchronizeinformation directly with an

Exchange Server if your company is running Microsoft Mob ile Infor-

mation Server 2002 or later.) Bydefau lt,you receiv e messagesfrom the

last three days only, the first 100 lines of each new message, and file at-

tachmentsoflessthan100KBinsize.

SMessagesin the Outbox folder on your device are transferred toEx-

change or Outlook and then sent from those programs.

SThe messages onthe two computers are linked. When you delete a mes-

sage on your 700 Color Computer, it is deleted from your desktop the

next time you synchronize.

SMessages in subfoldersin other e-mail folders in Outlook are synchro-

nized only if they were selected for synchronizationin ActiveSync.

For information on initiating Inbox synchronization or ch anging synchro-

nization settings, see ActiveSync Help on your desktopor select Start >

Help >Connectionsto see Connec tions Help.