When I use pocket explorer to check and send email using my web-based email accounts such as yahoo or gmail, the button to attach files to the messages doesn't appear when I create email messages.
Is this a natural problem of pocket IE? Is there any way to attach files to messages using web-based email and pocket IE?
most likely this has to do with how much PIE supports scripts/java and other things. I'm not so informed of exactly what the problem is, but suffice it to say that it is not supported in PIE. You might want to try netfront.
sorry, you can use a webmail like gmail which supports pop3 and then you can simply load those settings onto the Magician and work from there, that's what I do and it's far more convenient. If you don't have a gmail account and want one, PM me your email address and I'll invite you.
aha, thanks for the info Xilicon! Thanks for the offer as well. I have a gmail account already, but I haven't set it up for pop3 yet. I'll do that soon as I can. Thanks again!
All,
Does anyone know of another mail client apart from Pocket Outlook that can display HTML email?
Thanks
Msuk
Not sure. Maybe npop I think.
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msuk said:
All,
Does anyone know of another mail client apart from Pocket Outlook that can display HTML email?
Thanks
Msuk
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There are several of them; please see the Mailer Bible at http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=569&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
I read the many articles you reference in your blog, but I still can not find a client that will show HTML email when using an Exchange Server..Flexmail will for POP and IMAP, but not yet for exchange...
Any clients that use push and html email for MS Exchange??
I tried to find this on google, but no results turned back for windows mobile 5.
I awnted to know if i can install an add-on or program to support html email. let me know. thanks
As far as I know HTML email is only supported under WM6 and Exchange 07.
I use gmail and there used to my a link for html email but then they look it away. I copied the entire url for the html version and I favorite'd that one. If you try to do it otherwise it will redirect you to the gmail pda version, but using the direct (huge) link it will render in html.
All good and well but in my built in email client wm6 i cannot download headers when i could always do in the past. when i try to download email to my phone it just says receiving 1 of x emails then never shows the header. has anybody else had this problem?
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All good and well but in my built in email client wm6 i cannot download headers when i could always do in the past. when i try to download email to my phone it just says receiving 1 of x emails then never shows the header. has anybody else had this problem?
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I have no problems with it, make sure in your settings that either Download Headers only is selected, me personally I have it set to receive the whole email file.....Just wish there is a way to have it bring in all images at the same time, without having to manually download them on next sync.
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As far as I know HTML email is only supported under WM6 and Exchange 07.
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HTML E-Mail is supported under WM6 by Pocket Outlook and it does not require Exchange 2007. I'm running WM6 Most Beautiful Edition and I have HTML E-Mail on my IMAP4 non-exchange account.
You can get HTML E-Mail on WM5 with third party apps like Flex Mail 2007, but my experience with that program was it was far too buggy to replace Pocket Outlook for me. IMHO your best bet to get good HTML E-Mail is to flash up to WM6.
I'm having a problem with outlook and mail attachments.
I've received a number of emails which have another email attached. If I try and open the attachment I get the message "The attachment is of a file type that could be unsafe, etc, etc."
Therefore if I go to safe the attachment by using "Save As....." it wont let me select the type of file, I just have to save it. The file is therefore saved without a file extension.
Consequently, seemingly the only way I can open the file is to run up word and open it from there, the file opens, but the header information text is readable but the main message would appear to be in ASCII hex.
This is very frustrating Is there a fix? Have I missed something obvious??
How long should one wait before bumping?
I suspect not many people get emails embedded in emails anymore, so it's probably not something that is that common. I'll have a play tomorrow, see if i can reproduce it.
Do the embedded emails have the .msg extension?
Emm, you are not really being clear... Are you talking about emails in your outlook mobile? If so, why don't you check what the emails are on a desktop computer? See what the attachment is there, and see who is the sender and what kind of email it is. Could be a virus, who knows.
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How long should one wait before bumping?
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I've just tested it with my HD2, and it works fine with a .eml attachment. It is on base settings (I hard reset this morning) so maybe it is a program or setting you've added?
I have encountered the same problem.
I think it happens when someone tries to forward a mail and i don't know if this is significant but it always happens for me when someone tries to forward and email from an aol account. (not sure if aol does something when forwarding)
I haven't yet found a way to read it on the hd2 but whenever I check it on my pc it displays fine.
OK, I understand the confusion. I'll try and put it into perspective; imagine the scene:
You're at the car hire desk, following a delayed and very frustrating flight. You need the hire car booking code for the nice lady so she can give you your car. It's late and the work office is now empty.
You know you've been email'd the booking code from the office.
However the office has used that nice trick in XP Outlook where you select several emails, click forward and add the address.
The selected e-mails arrive as attachments on a new e-mail.
You 'click to save' the attachment, the attachment being the e-mail with the booking ref. Only to find you have no means of viewing it.
Lady behind desk not very impressed by HTC phone and wonders why I didn't buy an Iphone like everyone else. Being a lady behind a desk she is not interested in Snapdragon!!
The end result. Get laptop out, wait an age for it to boot up, log-in, no wifi, so copy saved attachment over to Laptop from phone. Give it a .msg extension. All is well in the world.
Life shouldn't be this complicated!
Just run a test for ya, sending from outlook 2007, by selecting 4 inbox emails and choosing fwd, sent to my outlook sync account, and to another pop server i check only from the phone.
Attachments went with .eml extension.
No problem opening on teh phone, even when i then forwarded the email on as a fwd, so they were double nested.
Must be office xp? what extension does it give the mail attachments?
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Just run a test for ya, sending from outlook 2007, by selecting 4 inbox emails and choosing fwd, sent to my outlook sync account, and to another pop server i check only from the phone.
Attachments went with .eml extension.
No problem opening on the phone, even when i then forwarded the email on as a fwd, so they were double nested.
Must be office xp? what extension does it give the mail attachments?
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Thanks for that. It got me thinking. It would appear to be an issue with my Sky E-mail account, although the phone isn't completely blameless.....I'll explain;
If I forward the original e-mail plus attachments to my Hotmail account from Outlook XP, it arrives on my HD2 with the attachments properly recognised, and as you say, you can open the attachments.
However, If I send the same mail from Outlook XP to my Sky email account, when I logged online to view the emails plus attachment, Sky (aka Google) 'decodes' the attached e-mails and appends to the end of the original e-mail.
If I forward the e-mail from Sky Online back to either Outlook XP, or Hotmail the e-mail arrives with no attachments, just the text fom the attachments appended to the original e-mail. You still with me?!
However, this is not the case with the HD2! They still arrive as attachments, but they're unreadable!!
So this is going to be a no-win situation. Google will blame Microsoft, and Microsoft will blame Google (aka Sky).
Unless anyone has any other bright ideas, looks like I'm 'Donald Ducked'
(this is just a thought)
try checking the sky account for a setting that may be forcing send in plain text rather than html?
A Fix?
OK, I have a fix.....
If I forward the message from my Phone's IMAP SKy account to my Hotmail account, Hotmail can decode it, and recognises the attachments as e-mail. I can then open the attachments on my phone.
Bizarley, if I do the same but to My Outlook XP account, it too doesn't recognise the attachments, and refuses to let me open them!
All a bit weird, but I have a work around.
Thanks for your help everyone, it got me on the right track.
And sorry HTC for assuming you were at fault.
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try checking the sky account for a setting that may be forcing send in plain text rather than html?
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I checked it out, no such option. In general the Sky IMAP email is working well, I can receive HTML based emails no problem. Just this single strange phenomenon with attached e-mails.
As someone has already said, it's not a situation you get very often. At least I have a relativly quick workaround should it happen again. Although the idea of sending an e-mail back to yourself is probably prohibitive if the attachment is very large.
I have my wife and my phones syncing with our Exchange server. The problem we are running into is that the mail app doesn't display HTML e-mail correctly. It shows the simple text version of the mail. This causes problems with some links that my wife receives for her work from the MLS realty website. They are long, complicated links and the mail app doesn't mark them as links correctly so that they can be opened. I even tried to copy and paste out the URL, but I couldn't find any way to copy and paste from within mail. Am I missing something, or is there really no way to copy and paste from mail? Also, how can I enable the mail app to view HTML mail?
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Just as a followup to my own question...
The HTML mail problem with Exchange is only with Exchange 2003. I added an account hosted on an Exchange 2007 server and it displayed HTML mail fine. I even found a whitepaper from Microsoft that mentions one of the new features of Exchange ActiveSync in Exchange 2007 to be syncing of HTML mail, so it is on the server end. The iPhone mail app and Touchdown for Android both display HTML mail from an Exchange 2003 server fine, so they are doing something to overcome this limitation.