new free service from microsoft that lets you back up phone data to their servers. Can access/manage it from any web browser.
Check it out; it's hella sweet
http://www.myphone.microsoft.com
What's the difference between storing your contacts to Microsoft MyPhone, ScheduleWorld, Live.com etc.?
I prefer to store my contacts to my own server, b/c I don't want to put all my cards to a third party server, so I can be sure, that nobody got access to, except from me. So I can synchronize between my phone, e-mail client and portable mail client on USB drive.
it's convenient and easy to use. You can also choose what you want to sync, so you don't have to sync contacts if you don't want to
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Hello,
I would like to ask your advice, can you recommend a good, full features and services, exchange email hosting?
I am trying the mail2web and I am using Yahoo, but this combination is not ideal. I cannot leave a copy of the email on yahoo when forwading to the mail2web. Ideally I would like one provider, with a good name, advertising free with which I can have the email also sent to the Jamin.
Your thoughts and comments are very much appreciated.
Thanks!!
Try these guys http://www.4smartphone.com/Default.aspx. They have an option to pull your email from yahoo, hotmail etc and they have a free trial. $3.99 per month after the trial.
If you have an i-mate you already get an exchange-based e-mail address for free - @clubimate.com Just sign up.
Does anyone know if I might be able to sync (via ActiveSync) with both my local desktop and a hosted Exchange provider like 4smartphone.net using the same device?
My Outlook at work is connected to Exchange 2000, so I can't get push e-mail, but I do sync my contacts, calendar and tasks. When I unplug my device, I'd like it to sync with an external hosted Exchange service which I can then use from my Outlook at home.
Is this possible?
@OP - Why do you still need to access your yahoo mail on their server? Just have it forwarded to 4smartphone for fastest delivery. You can always have them poll your Yahoo acct periodically if you really want to keep a copy there. Although, this sort of defeats the purpose of synced exchange on multiple devices. What you don't get with the free exchange servers out there is the ability to use Outlook 2003 to control your data and have it synced with multiple computers. Instead, you must always access your data on a PC with OWA (over the web), which is all right for many, but not nearly as nice. P.S. you do get a free copy of Outlook 2003 with the pro 4smartphone account. ($7/mo)
@urban - No, you can't sync the same category of PIM data to multiple sources, i.e. server and local PC. However, I believe you can sync the categories with multiple PC's, in which case you would ultimately be syncing the PC's together *via* your mobile device, although this isn't what you're looking for.
Hi Floepie,
I like to have a copy on Yahoo to download the email to my PC later and to access it on the Web when travelling, to avoid the roaming charges for GPRS use.
Anyways, trying the mail2web.com service. I signed up and for a small fee I have pop3 access to this account. It works quite well. The 4smartphone service look spretty cool as well.
Thanks for your feedback.
I haven't taken the step to spending money as of yet but I have thought about going this route for some time. Basically at this point I'm using mail2web with a rule to to ensure replies are available on my home computer.
If you went with the full hosted exchange you have everything your ae asking for. At home you could access the mail through the free copy of outlook. On the road you can access the mail via the outlook web portal.
If then you want to hold a local copy you could simply create a rule to pull the mail into a local folder. This is in fact what many people where I work do with their corporate exchange account.
Fidipaldi said:
Hi Floepie,
I like to have a copy on Yahoo to download the email to my PC later and to access it on the Web when travelling, to avoid the roaming charges for GPRS use.
Anyways, trying the mail2web.com service. I signed up and for a small fee I have pop3 access to this account. It works quite well. The 4smartphone service look spretty cool as well.
Thanks for your feedback.
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Is anyone here managing their contact or calendar via an online solution such as Kiko or Gmail?
I've tried many different solution and none seem really convenient. Gmail contacts won't sync with the universal unless you go through outlook as an intermediary, losing some of the data in the process (gmail groups are not recognized by outlook).
I'm just looking for something that's convenient and works. I intend to use my universal as the only 'offline' source of info + an online repository, but no desktop solution (as I'm always on the go and don't use a desktop).
TIA!
I'm going to partially update my own post:
This tool:
http://www.pocketinformant.com/products_info.php?p_id=sync&dir=wm
seem to sync plaxo contacts to a pocket pc. That's a start. Does anyone knows anything similar?
I use Airset for my online calendar, but I sync it to my desktop outlook. They do have a java thingy for mobiles though, and the tmobile MDA Vario and SDA.
I've not tried that, but I'd imagine it keeps everything in the applet, rather than hooking up with wm5 calendar. Could be worth a look though.
I think I might have found a solution to my problem.
Apparently Yahoo Mail supports intellisync, which syncs straight to the PDA from the online repository (notes, calendar and contacts apparently)
That's exciting stuff, especially with the new Yahoo mail beta that's going on (much better interface, 1gig of space).
As an extra bonus Yahoo mail also supports plaxo sync (gmail doesn't)
I'll give it a try and will let you know.
Right, didn't work either. Now I think my last option is a hosted exchange service with a web interface.
... which I did and it works wonders. Seems to be the only solution out there for the people looking forward to rid of the dated 'desktop-centric' paradigm.
So now I got gmail address -> 4smartphone , using gmail as a spam filter. When replying the emails I send appear to come from my gmail account, rather than the forwarding address (brilliant!).
So far I've only tried to sync over wire, which worked great (minus a few quirks here and there but nothing dreadful).
It's brilliant and cost only a few quids a month.
Does anyone know the name of any server software that works the same as MS Exchange.
I don't need Push email, all I NEED is the contact, calendar sync. email is optional but preferable. Sort of like ZYB but with email.
I don't mind if it runs or windows or linux as long as it just works.
edit: sorry, just realized this was posted in the wrong forum.
try mail2web.com that is essentially FREE exchange server online, will do all, including mail aggrigation, ie it'll collect mail from other email accounts aswell.
I signed up for that but the support over there told me there was no way to upload/import my contacts to my address book on their server. My contacts wouldn't sync automatically either so I closed my account over there.
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I signed up for that but the support over there told me there was no way to upload/import my contacts to my address book on their server. My contacts wouldn't sync automatically either so I closed my account over there.
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You do have all your contact currently on your PDA isnt it? therefore by the first sync all your contact should be copied to server. sorry If I dont understand your problem.
no you're right bulldog, you understood my problem.
The contacts didn't sync though and when I spoke to support they made it seem like the contacts aren't supposed to sync.
What am I doing wrong??
Ok, found a way to upload the contacts but theres a 100 contacts limit and I've got more than 100.
So solution still pending...
i have a question about mail2web.com:
i have my account and i managed to enable an email filter from to provider acror to mail2web. also i let outlook2k7 to leave the messages on the pop3 server. so i could download all my mails onto my pc and onto my mail2web account.
i added the exchange server to my activesync on my htc prophet and it synced over air very fine. i get new mails onto my pc and onto my mail2web account.
but sadly it looks like this exchange server doesn't support html mails
i just get only normal text mail over the exchange server. did i something wrong, or does their exchange servers not support this WM6 feature?
to sort of solve my own problem.. Kerio Mailserver does everything exchange does.. just requires a small proggie installed with outlook
rashed2020 said:
to sort of solve my own problem.. Kerio Mailserver does everything exchange does.. just requires a small proggie installed with outlook
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and your PC to be on all the time!
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Ok, found a way to upload the contacts but theres a 100 contacts limit and I've got more than 100.
So solution still pending...
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I never had any problems syncing my 400+ contacts !!!
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i have a question about mail2web.com:
i have my account and i managed to enable an email filter from to provider acror to mail2web. also i let outlook2k7 to leave the messages on the pop3 server. so i could download all my mails onto my pc and onto my mail2web account.
i added the exchange server to my activesync on my htc prophet and it synced over air very fine. i get new mails onto my pc and onto my mail2web account.
but sadly it looks like this exchange server doesn't support html mails
i just get only normal text mail over the exchange server. did i something wrong, or does their exchange servers not support this WM6 feature?
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mail2web servers dont support PUSH HTML....just text... and kiero doesnt support HTML either...
Carnivore:
That's not a problem since its always on as it is! Plus, thinking of getting a VPS so thatll make life easier.
Shaile:
Are you using the free or paid version? I was experimenting with the free one and I couldn't seem to upload more than 100.
Walsh:
Don't really need HTML, nor do I want it. So kerio not supporting HTML is a feature if you look at it from my side =P
Mail2Web configure PDA
I read an article today about Mail2Web and wanted to try it before I recommend it for any of our users. The article said there was a configuration file/program - have anyone of you seen this file - or know how I configure a PDA towards Mail2Web ?
I haven't personally tried it yet...
http://www.funambol.com/opensource/
"Funambol is open source mobile application server software that provides push email, address book and calendar (PIM) data synchronization, application provisioning, and device management for wireless devices and PCs, leveraging standard protocols. For users, this means BlackBerry-like capabilities on commodity handsets."
I am using Kerio MailServer and it works great. No problems so far!!!
- TKN
Funambol isnt really compliant with any of the syncing standards.. Kerio looks like the best option so far as it works with activesync
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I haven't personally tried it yet...
http://www.funambol.com/opensource/
"Funambol is open source mobile application server software that provides push email, address book and calendar (PIM) data synchronization, application provisioning, and device management for wireless devices and PCs, leveraging standard protocols. For users, this means BlackBerry-like capabilities on commodity handsets."
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Thanks dude this one is cool but this one is also not free service. even mail2web has closed free service. I am planning to host Funambol to serve free sync service.
Anyone interested?
Also you can use microsoft myphone service to sync contacts.
www.myphone.microsoft.com
But if you dont want to save contacts online the I guess PIM Backup s/w you can also schedule to take backup. And this even can take backup of mails, message.
Try Google sync
Try Google sync
http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p=default
nuevasync is the way to go
free service does calendar and contacts from google, premiums ($25/yr) does push email.
uses activesync/exchange
Im looking for a website/application that will allow syncing contacts via the net. Using thunderbird at home.
I have worldcom (i believe is the name) which I can take a picture of a business card and put it automatically in my contacts. In theory if I were to be at a point where i receive 20+ I would like to be able to sync via the net, where my partners would be able to sync as well, without hooking up to the computer. If that makes sense. Ive heard of SyncML, and Scheduleworld... but I am looking for other options, if anyone knows of any. Thanks for your time
http://dashwire.com/
Does exactly what you need and a little more...
Wow, that's a great idea. Why didn't I think about that. Thanks for the link to Dashwire.
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http://dashwire.com/
Does exactly what you need and a little more...
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I've been waiting two months for an invitation.
I have two phones waiting for invites... hope they increase their users soon.
this might work too
http://live.mail2web.com/
i sync with an exchange server at work, it syncs contacts, email, calender and tasks, this seems to provide the same exchange-based service
I've been waiting since this original message for an invite as well and have basically given up. For now I've just been using PIMBackup to make a nightly backup. I need to do a scheduled task to send them to my FTP server, that'll be good enough for me.
you could sync with an exchange server like said above. I use mail2web for that. alot of people use mail2web to "push" their email to the phone instantly. I did that for a while and it wasnt very functional for me so now i use it just to sync calendar and contacts.
all you have to do is setup up an account with them, add the email account to your phone, and your phone will automagically sync over the interwebs. whether you actually use the email addy is up to you.
while we're on the subject, is there a way to sync from desktop PC to mail2web (dont care about the email, just want to sync calendar and contacts)? that way, whatever changes i make on my PC will appear on my phone almost instantly without dealing with wires...
Mail2Web charges $14.99 a month if you want to sync to a desktop PC. Seems excessive to me.
I was using myfunambol.com to sync my calendar, todo, contacts with my phone, outlook and thunderbird... but the push email was not working very good and looked everywhere but can't get myfunambol to sync with gcal. Now I am using www.scheduleworld.com and I'm very impressed so far.
I use the same client that is on my phone, outlook and thunderbird and just set the server for credentials for scheduleworld and I should be in sync with all my devices.
I also use mail2web for push email... which backs up my calendar, todos and contacts as well... plus I do a nightly backup with ppcpimbackup. At this point... I think I'm safe against data loss... and all my stuff is in sync...
Now watch it all go to hell
Mark
When I fill in the serversettings :
mobile.exchange.mail2web.com
then username and password and try to sync, it just keeps telling me that it's syncing, but it doesn't establish a connection.
Do I have to add the emailsettings to establish a connection or am I doing something else wrong ?
Bump..
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http://dashwire.com/
Does exactly what you need and a little more...
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I gotta recommend dashwire also it synced everything on my device and even does a voicemail service (but not for us "Sprinters"). My only problem is with accessing the website using a mobile browser..it's still in beta so there are other issues but that belongs in another discussion...TRY Dashwire.
I like the idea of dashwire, but do not want to sacrifice the 3mb of ram to run it.
Hi,
I want to ask you for something. I used scheduleworld.com + funambol to sync my contacts online. Once I flash my gsm it's a matter of a minute or two, to sync the contacts back to my phone. It was very convenient and also let you edit/add/delete contacts/messages/calendar entries from the web browser too. The problem is, that scheduleworld.com won't be free anymore and they will charge per year.
My question is, do you use such SyncML online service like scheduleworld.com? If so, than what service do you use? I saw google has mobile sync. Does anyone use it?
I host my own groupware server (www.egroupware.org ). It includes a syncml compatible server for contacts, events and tasks. It's open sources but you need a php compatible webserver/mysql etc. Works really well
That sounds like a nice idea, to build myself a SyncML server. If it's opensource, I can use it.
Just tried Google Sync. It works great ) Synced all my contacts to my gmail account.