Acer n30 User Guide

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Inbox
Use Inbox to send and receive e-mail messages by doing either of the following: 
• Synchronise e-mail messages with Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft Outlook 
on your computer.
• Send and receive e-mail messages by connecting directly to an e-mail server 
through an Internet service provider (ISP) or a network.
Opening the Inbox
• Press the Inbox Quick button on the front panel of your handheld. 
Inbox will open to the Inbox’ folder navigator.
Synchronising email messages
Email messages can be synchronised as part of the general synchronisation process. 
You will need to enable Inbox synchronisation in ActiveSync. 
For information on enabling Inbox synchronisation, see ActiveSync Help on your 
computer.
During synchronisation:
• Messages are copied from the mail folders of Exchange or Outlook on your 
computer to the ActiveSync folder in Inbox on your handheld. By default, you 
will receive messages from the past three days only, the first 100 lines of each 
message, and file attachments of less than 100 KB in size.
• Email messages in the Outbox folder on your handheld are transferred to 
Exchange or Outlook, and then sent from those programs.
• Email messages in subfolders must be selected in ActiveSync on your 
computer in order to be transferred.
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You can also synchronise email messages with your computer from a remote location. 
For more information, see the ActiveSync Help menu in your computer.
Connecting directly to an email server
In addition to synchronising email messages with your computer, you can send and 
receive email messages by connecting to an email server using a modem or a network 
card connected to your handheld. You'll need to set up a remote connection to a 
network or an ISP, and a connection to your email server. For more information, refer 
to "9 Getting connected" on page 65. 
When you connect to the email server, new messages are downloaded to your 
handheld’s Inbox folder, messages in the handheld’s Outbox folder are sent, and 
messages that have been deleted on the email server are removed from the 
handheld’s Inbox folder.
Messages that you receive directly from an email server are linked to your email server 
rather than your computer. When you delete a message on your handheld, it is also 
deleted from the email server the next time you connect based on the settings you 
selected in ActiveSync.