Palm Tungsten T5 manual Setting up an account on your handheld

CHAPTER 15 Sending and Receiving Email Messages

Tip

If you are synchronizing an account with Microsoft Outlook on your computer, you must also

set Outlook as your default email program.

Tip

If you intend both to synchronize email on your handheld with email on your computer and to send and receive email messages wirelessly from your handheld for a given account, leave the Synchronize Only Account box unchecked on the Account Setup screen.

Synchronizing email on your handheld with email on your computer

WINDOWS ONLY

To manage your email on your computer as well as on your handheld, you can synchronize an email account on the handheld with an email application on the desktop. You can use many popular email applications, called clients, such as Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, Lotus Notes, Outlook Express, or any other email clients that use MAPI.

When you synchronize an account, messages from your computer are downloaded to your handheld only. Messages from your handheld are not transferred to your computer during synchronization.

[ ! ] IMPORTANT You must have a Windows computer to synchronize email on your handheld with email on your computer. On a Windows computer, the VersaMail conduit is installed automatically when you install Palm® Desktop software.

To synchronize email for a given account, do the following:

•If you plan both to send and receive email wirelessly from your handheld and to synchronize email on your handheld with email on your computer, you must set up the email account on your handheld with the correct settings. If you plan only to synchronize email on your handheld with email on your computer, you do not need to set up the account on your handheld.

•Enable synchronization on your computer.

•Select the synchronization options for the email account.

Setting up an account on your handheld

If you plan both to send and receive email wirelessly from your handheld and to synchronize email on your handheld with email on your computer, you must set up the email account on your handheld. If so, note the following on the Account Setup screen for each email application or connection type:

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