Hi all
I have my 2 pop3 e-mail accounts set up on my Touch and every now and again I have to send e-mail from it. Is there any way I can sync those sent items to my laptop (using Outlook)?
I tried setting up e-mail sync on Active Sync, but that just ends up creating a new "account" on my phone and ends up dumping a whole lot of stuff onto my phone every time I plug it in.
Thanks.
I'm getting the "blank stare" everywhere I ask this. I will have to assume its not possible
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I've not seen this one answered before, so hopefully someone knows now...
You can set up POP3 mail accounts on your phone, so you can download e-mail on the go. You can also sync the mail on your computer's Outlook onto your phone. But can you do both?
Is it possible to read the mail from your POP3 on your computer, via Outlook, sync it to your phone, then when you're away from your computer, download and read your new mail on your phone, then when you get back to your computer, have that e-mail that you downloaded sync'ed back to Outlook on your computer?
Very interesting question. As far as I'm aware it can only go one way. You can sync (download) to your phone, but I don't believe it's possible to sync in reverse (have mail sync from your phone to your pc). But just out of curiosity, why would you want to? As long as your "Leave copy on server" option is checked in outlook, your mail will always be on your email account's server until you delete it, so that should negate you having to sync mail back to your pc. Unless when you are downloading mail directly to your phone while you are away from home there is no copy left on the email server, which is definitely a possibility. If that is happening, I would contact the cellular service provider to see if there is a way to view basically a copy on your phone while leaving a copy intact on your email server.
Hope this helps.
Been thinking about the same question recently. And i can see the reason for wanting to reverse sync.
Say i have e-mail sync'd between pc & wizard. I go out and check my mail and download 5 new messages (leaving on the server). Now i go home and my pc gets the new 5 messages. when i sync will i end up with a double copy of my e-mail on my Wizard?
i cant currently test as my PC is in pieces so i've been using my wizard for e-mail, but its not under "outlook mail" but a new account conencting directly to the pop server, can i have 1 account that will sync to outlook or pop?
Sry i dont answer anything!
you can sync outlook and a pop3 account if seperate
for instance, i sync my inbox with my outlook which works fine
i also have a new "account" in my messages area which downloads my pop mail via gprs or wifi (whichever is in access).
when you download mail from pop, it still stays on server which is good... then when you get home, you can download these on the machine
as far as i know, you cannot sync the mails back to outlook because of the way it treats the mails but i might be wrong as ive not tried it... if i remember, i will trty when i get home.
also there is limits and attachment restrictions etc so not sure how they would work.
What the poster means (At least what I like to know), is if it's possible to sync Outlook mail. Then, on the go, you want to check if there's mail. Here you have to create an account. Is it possible to have the Outlook-account of the pda have the mail checked? So only the new messages, which haven't been outlook-synced are downloaded...
Because, now, on the go, when I do a Dial-in or on a Wifi hotspot, my 'Outlook' can't download new mail. And another account (the dial-in one) starts downloading messages of 3 days (I know you can set this, but that's only half a solution...)
No way around this?
Nope.
The only two-way sync to the desktop is Outlook Exchange mail.
Hi I've been tracking this topic on many sites, and have seen no answer.
If you only have POP3 (imap and exchance are ok), you are screwed.
I have on the PPC the oulook boxes, and a seperate account (setup like the account on my PC-outlook), that works fine on Pop3 via wifi or gprs.
What any pop3 user likes to do, is sync your PPC, get out and reply, send and receive mails. This is how it works:
- read your mails, do a reply! (which is not possible, as the oulook on you PPC cant send receive)
- so you like to copy that mail to the seperate account (Which is not possible too, you cant move mails between boxes)
- so you copy the content to a new mail in the seperate account, (and add all the cc's that where in the list, ohw!) and do there a send/receive, done...
- really?... how to get your send-mail back to your outlook send items box???, so you set yourselves in bcc for all send mails (or get a program for that)
Its a pain and a waste of time (anyone who knows a better solution, tell me and dont tell me the Imap or exchance story)
I think the solution can be 2-ways:
- or a patch that makes the send/receive available for the outlook account on your PPC
- or a mailbox-copy / move function, that eases the copying between the accounts.
Anyone has these solutions?
Hi all,
I am trying to figure out why my pop3 accounts (i have 2) always seem to disappear after a day or so of me opening them. One account gets all of the email and the other gets headers only. but when i try to open up the two accounts or even go into outlook express, they are never there.
I can't find any setting that says keep all email that I don't delete. Can anyone advise please? It's probably a simple answer but I can't figure it out yet :\
TTT please advise!
You need to be more specific. Which email service are you using on your device? If it is Gmail then you need to let the device auto detect the settings and leave the default usename to "recent:username". Otherwise the messages will go away after a day or 2.
sorry i didnt think the email service would matter. it seemed like more of a settings on the phone issue. its roadrunner, time warner - pop.nycap.rr.com
i receive them fine and that's no problem. but they just go away after a day or two even if i haven't synced. why wont they fill up my inbox like microsoft outlook does on my pc??
Well you may need to check your email account settings on roadrunners website. For example when you log into a gmail account on the web there is a link for Pop/forwarding settings. In there you can set "Status: POP is enabled for all mail that has arrived since 8/2/04". Once this is set then all mail will stay on the device after 8/2/04. Assuming roadrunner has a setting like this then you will want to make sure it is setup properly via the roadrunner website. However if email is staying in outlook on your home pc and not on your device then this might not be your problem.
If I were you I would first delete the account on your device and set it up again making sure you allow the device to detect settings automatically.
Well, I only use a exchange server but in activesync dont you specify how many days of emails you want to store? Default is 3 days, so emails automatically are removed from the phone after 3 days.
surrept, thanks i will check that out - i never let it do auto detect cause the few times i did it wouldn't pick anything up. and i assume my roadrunner is set to keep them since my PCs outlook has them all the way back until i set up my account? weird. also, in the messenger tab, i see
"OUTLOOK EXPRESS"
"EMAIL1"
"EMAIL2"
email 1 and 2 being the two roadrunner accounts that i receive to my phone..should they be set up right inside outlook? maybe that's part of the problem?
fredde, i dont often activesync because my PC no longer recognizes my handheld, i need to sync via my laptop but i do it rarely since i dont use it all the time. like once a week maybe i sync. but the emails disappear more frequently than that. i will sync up and see if i can see that option.
thanks for the tips guys
No outlook on the device is reserved for the outlook accounts on your PC. That mailbox will fill up as you sync it up with activesync. But only when you do that. You want the 2 email accounts below that you said you have. Those if setup properly should connect to the pop servers the same as outlook would on a pc. Like the poster said above make sure in advanced account settings that you have it set to keep all mail on device.
well i've made some headway - i learned that the emails disappear from my handheld as soon as I mark them as read (open them) on my PC...so now where would the setting be to have them stay on my handheld until deleted from there?? its like the hard copy never gets created on the phone they just stay on the server??
I changed it to keep all, however the weird thing is that the two accounts I have on my phone are the same two set up in my Outlook on my PC - so one would think it would work with either the phone settings or the activesync to keep them in the phone!? so confusing.
what i really want is the two email accounts on my phone (same as PC) to get new mail, and if i don't delete it, in a day or so have them go into the outlook on my phone so that they will be stored the same way Outlook on your PC stores email. By date, so that you can search them quickly etc. I dont know why it wouldn't do that.
Hi
I've been trying to set up my microsoft exchange email on my device. I've input all the settings and when its at the end, it says "synchronising".
There's no progress bar and doesn't tell me what its doing. I told it to sync contacts and email (after 15min was still 'sync-ing')
Then I told it to sync just email (still took ages and didnt finish 'sync')
So I cancelled everything and maybe I'll set it up as a normal email rather than do it through Outlook as a proper 'exchange server' type setup.
It's a college email - so there's endless contacts and my inbox is around the 80mb mark. Does this affect the time it takes to sync?? And more importantly, does it download all the contacts and emails onto the phone??!!
Can someone please give me some insight into this sync-ing process and also answer some of my questions. Thanks so much!
oh and it also says server could not be reached or something when I connected my phone to activesync and 'microsoft exchange' was sync-ing
Hi
I'm struggling to figure out the email set up on the HD2 and hope someone might be able to shed some light.
I have set up 2 email accounts "1 at mydomain dotcom"and "2 at mydomain dotcom" and they seem to be working fine. I used Start > Email > Setup E-mail and filled out all the boxes with the same settings as I use in Outlook on my PC (incoming / outgoing mail server etc)
When I send and receive mail it gets stored in a separate folder for each account.
But ...
There is also the "default" Outlook account which seems to be the one that syncs with outlook on my desktop. I cannot seem to set anything up in this account for sending and receiving email. It only seems to have two screens - one for sync options and one for Advanced E-mail Options. The latter has a box for "my email address" but no settings anywhere.
Am I missing the point somewhere ?
What I would like to do is set it up so that my PC and my HD2 are pretty much the same. I'd like to sync the two and have the HD2 able to send and receive mail from the either account and, store these in the Outlook folders
Any help or advice would be great
Stephen
You need to change it using Windows Mobile Device Center as it's set there to sync emails. I made the same mistake recently...
Wow - fast reply ! Thanks
OK so you're saying I can set up all my HD2 mail accounts within MDC ? I didn't notice that so will take a look
Thanks
Still struggling
OK, thanks, I found Mobile Device Settings in MDC
Change content sync settings
Sync wirelessly with Exchange Server
Manage a Partnership
Connection settings
Get device certificates
End a partnership
But none of these seem to lead me to a place where I can set up Outlook mail on the phone (othere than sync settings)
I don't have Exchange Server - just Outlook on my PC
I'm trying to set up my mail accounts in Outlook on the HD2 so that whether I send and receive mail from my phone or my PC both accounts are available inside the Outlook account rather than in separate accounts
Hope that makes sense ?
Thanks
Stephen
When I first setup my phone using WMDC it asked what I want to sync with my phone (contacts, notes, email, calendar, etc.). If you select emails it'll sync your Outlook emails to your phone but not the settings. If you want to get rid of the Outlook on your phone you have to change what you sync with it.
Just in case there is some confusion caused by wording of the question:
If you use WMDC, you can ONLY sync with the Outlook email on the PC BUT you can only update email when you connect to WMDC.
If you want to receive and send emails when mobile, you set up email accounts within the HD2 email programme. Hit the email tab, menu, add account.
Then set up like you would an account in outlook
Seems it may not do what I want
Thanks for your help guys - appreciated.
It sounds like this HD2 won't do what I need then.
Sync between my "local pc outlook" and the "phone outlook" is no good on its own.
If I have email accounts set up on the phone which are not part of the sync I won't have a record of my mails on my pc
I tried sending and receiving within "phone outlook account" and that only works when connected to the pc which does seem strange
If there's anything else I can try or if anyone has a workaround to handle all my mail from both accounts and sync them between the pc and phone I'd love to hear
Thanks
Stephen
Hello everyone,
I've got myself a new databundle which allows me to be connected to the internet constantly and I want to set up my email.
Now if i connect my topaz it sync's my outlook mail automaticly, but when disconnected it doesn't get my mail, when 3G and connection on.
I want the following:
When i'm not using the PC, I want my HTC to get the incoming mail for me but once connected to the pc again, these mails should have to by synced so they appear in my PC outlook at the end.
I don't know how it works in example, if I get a mail with alot of images or attachements, does the HTC download them? Or does it leave those messages on the server? I cannot lose them.
Or do I have to setup my HTC to leave a copy on the server so my outlook downloads the new messages again for a second time? (In that way only the mails that arrive on the go appear in my HTC and I can delete them without worries) - but is that even possible?
I'm really bad at understanding this.
Hi,
have my Touch Pro2 set up like follows:
- imap connection to get all emails on the run. Means originals will be kept in your inbox.
- Sync connection to outlook with individual settings for what has to be synced. (can be set easily in the windows sync manager)
My Outlook is set up with a pop3 connection and finally collects the messages from the ISP-inbox to my local disc.
In that way I am always up to date but means a periodical syncing...
That seems what i need!
How can I setup the imap connection? I don't need all my mail on the HTC, i only want to store on my PC, just the new one's i like to read on the road when i'm gone, automatically being downloaded on my PC too when i'm on it again.
However, if I do sync my email with outlook, will the imap email and the synced outlook email be together in one folder or be seperated? Will there be doubles?
Thanks!
It seems that my ISP doesn't support IMAP. How can i set an option 'leave a copy of message on server' with my HTC and POP account?
well actually when I'm on the go, I recieve all my mails via the imap connection. Imap means, that you download the email every time, when you want to read it on you HTC as long as the mail is not collected by your outlook. When you collect your emails via otlook to your local PC-disc, the mails will not be any more available via the imap connection on your phone after manual or automatic "updating".
In my HTC I have three folders set up. 1 folder is my PC outlook, the other two my email-accounts (IMAP). After having collected all my mails by outlook, I have to proceed a sync between PC and HTC and all my local stored Emails are on my HTC. Set up what and how e.g. will be done via the Mobile sync software from Microsoft.
Btw.: check your mail provider again (FAQ or else). Cannot imagine, that any mail-provider does not offer any IMAP function. Just had it years before with my dadys mail accounts. there was e.g no POP3 solution available but IMAP4...
Greets