Palm Zire 72 manual Setting up an account

CHAPTER 18 Sending and Receiving E-mail Messages

Tip

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

set Outlook or Outlook Express as your default e-mail program.

Tip

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

Synchronizing e-mail on your handheld with e-mail on your computer

WINDOWS ONLY

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

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

To synchronize e-mail for a given account, you must do the following:

•Set up the e-mail account on your handheld with the correct settings.

•Enable synchronization on your computer.

•Select the synchronization options for the e-mail account.

Setting up an account

When you set up the e-mail account on your handheld, note the following on the Account Setup screen for each e-mail application or connection type:

Microsoft Exchange account Select IMAP in the Protocol pick list.

Lotus Notes If you want to synchronize to a local mail file instead of a server mail file, select POP in the Protocol pick list. If you are synchronizing your corporate e-mail and your corporate mail server does not use IMAP, select POP. If neither of the above is true, select IMAP.

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