Hi,
I have an HD2, and use Windows 7 on my PC.
I am now out of work, but at my last job they let me sync my work emails with my device via exchange. Obviously now I've left, the exhcange server can't connect, and I want to get rid of the annoying "enter your password" dialog I get now and again.
If I remove the exchange server from ActiveSync on the device, it will delete all the emails, but the emails I have I actually want to keep.
Any way to download them to the PC via sync, or a pst or something?
Hope someone can help!
Lee
i believe you can use a program called pimbackup, but have you tried changing the sync settings on your computer from phone->computer and then just sync your phone with outlook at home this may put the emails directly on your computer.
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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?
Here's the situation, I need some pointers
I currently have my HTC Wizard partnered with my work laptop and my home PC. Work laptop is XP Pro with ActiveSync 4.2. Home PC is Vista Business with Windows Mobile Device Center.
What I'd like to set up is my Wizard to sync to Exchange through my work laptop (appointments, contacts), then for my home PC to pick up these items off the phone.
Currently, the phone is setup to sync with Exchange through my work laptop just fine, but when I take it home, it tries to connect to the Exchange server as well. I want my home PC to sync to the items on the phone locally, not from the Exchange server, when syncing with my home PC. I want the phone to pick up stuff from the Exchange server from work.
That is, ideally, the phone gets items from my Exchange server at work, then when I take it home, my home PC picks up these items and copies them locally.
Can someone please help? I'm sure this is an easy solution
Thanks for your help guys. Don't all jump in all at once.
Come on. Someone has to know how to do this. It must be simple. You can't take 30 seconds to post how this is done at least in ActiveSync 4.2 so I can figure it out in WMDC?
I don't have my phone setup to sync with an Exchange server nor do i have Vista so i don't know if my advice will be of any help at all...
When I hook my non-exchange partnered phone up to a PC it asks me to setup a syn partnership with that PC if i've never connected before. Seems i can do that with an unlimited number of PCs and it will copy the stuff in either direction so that they all end up synced to the same stuff.
Maybe a setup like that would work for you? Or does it only allow syncing with Exchange with an Exchange partnership?
I don't believe that what you want is possible. The phone can get email from another PC or an exchange server but it won't go the other way. Also, the phone can only set up email sync with one source. So you could sync to your exchange server OR the PC for email. What you might do is see if your employer has a way for your PC to connect to the exchange server as well. If not as an exchange server then using POP3 or IMAP (if the former, be sure to set it to leave messages on the server).
Good insight, thanks! Sorry to be rude earlier
I'm not worried about email at this point.. all I really want is contacts and appointments.. what I'd like is for my phone to grab my contacts/meetings from work (Exchange) and sync to Windows Calendar/Contacts in Vista or locally in Outlook at home..
The contacts I care about are actually stored locally on my work machine.. I'm not too worried about getting the company directory. When I sync my phone with my work machine, it only syncs local contacts (ie: contacts that are already on my phone, my "personal" contacts), so that's good. That is, I had contacts on my phone, and it dumps them onto my work machine locally. If I edit them on my work machine, it then updates my phone. Perfect. It does this with my home PC as well, so this is good.
What I'm ultimately trying to figure out then, I suppose, is how to get my appointments from my work Exchange server to get dumped to my home PC locally, as I mentioned, in Windows Calendar or Outlook, without it trying to connect to my work Exchange server at home (meaning that I'll have to connect via VPN every time I connect my phone, ugh). That is:
Me at work: plug in phone, phone syncs appointments with Exchange, stores them locally on the phone
Me at home after work: plug in phone, WMDC notices schedules on phone that aren't stored locally, WMDC pulls them from phone and stores on my home PC in either Windows Calendar (default) or Outlook (if installed).
Is this possible?
grivad said:
Good insight, thanks! Sorry to be rude earlier
I'm not worried about email at this point.. all I really want is contacts and appointments.. what I'd like is for my phone to grab my contacts/meetings from work (Exchange) and sync to Windows Calendar/Contacts in Vista or locally in Outlook at home..
The contacts I care about are actually stored locally on my work machine.. I'm not too worried about getting the company directory. When I sync my phone with my work machine, it only syncs local contacts (ie: contacts that are already on my phone, my "personal" contacts), so that's good. That is, I had contacts on my phone, and it dumps them onto my work machine locally. If I edit them on my work machine, it then updates my phone. Perfect. It does this with my home PC as well, so this is good.
What I'm ultimately trying to figure out then, I suppose, is how to get my appointments from my work Exchange server to get dumped to my home PC locally, as I mentioned, in Windows Calendar or Outlook, without it trying to connect to my work Exchange server at home (meaning that I'll have to connect via VPN every time I connect my phone, ugh). That is:
Me at work: plug in phone, phone syncs appointments with Exchange, stores them locally on the phone
Me at home after work: plug in phone, WMDC notices schedules on phone that aren't stored locally, WMDC pulls them from phone and stores on my home PC in either Windows Calendar (default) or Outlook (if installed).
Is this possible?
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Hmm, mine does that as far as I know. I have a personal exchange acct with mail2web. Appointments seem to sync with that and my home PC. I will connect it in the morning and make sure. Only thing is that I made the appt on the PPC so it may not tell you exactly the same.
You know, now that I think about it, I had ActiveSync setup this way before I switched to XP -- at work it'd sync with Exchange, then at home it'd sync locally.. however, I can't remember how I set it up, and I can't seem to set it up that way in WMDC. In WMDC, I can choose to not sync with Exchange, but it keeps my Home PC grayed out so I can't select that as an option.. hmm.
Hey,
You can "add" an extra account to Activesync.
That is how I got my Activesync to sync manually only, instead
of every so often without me knowing and sucking up resources.
(With only one account the connect box is greyed out)
Good Luck,
Johann
Hm. Okay, so I have Outlook 2k7 on my Desktop. It synced just fine, I can see my email on the HD, but when I select send/recieve, nothing happens. Is Outlook Mobile 2k7 not on the phone? Is there something i'm missing? since it pulled my messages in, i assumed it pulled my login info with it. is that not right?
Surely Syncing just checks what mail you have on the PC. Send and receive downloads it itself. You need to have a mail account set up on the HD to do this, but not needed to sync.
When you connect your HD to Outlook 2007 via activesync, email that is currently stored in outlook is synced to your phone and that is basically all it does. If you want to retrieve email to your phone whilst not connected to your pc, you need to setup mail acccounts on your HD. There is a wizzard on the HD that takes you through this process which automatically determines the mail server settings for you.
I use BB Connect to get email from company server and for calendar. I do not want to use BB Connect for managing my Contacts (not sure even if I can use it). So I would like to use activesync or similar solution to synchronize contacts with my PC and use for changes. However, once I connect phone to PC it wants to synchronize mail as well. Once I unselect Mail on synchr. options it says it will need to delete all email on my phone.... So I do not proceed further and as a result can not synchronise contacts...
Is there any solution to get my contact on the phone?
Hi all,
Got a question/problem. I have my HD set up to receive email thru an exchange server but only to get the email. I still want to sync my contacts, calendar, etc. with the info in my desktop outlook. In the activesync window it shows microsoft exchange with email, and windows PC with contacts, calendar, notes and files but it doesn't seem to sync the info with the PC and only the exchange server. Any ideas what I may be doing wrong?
Thanks,
Ho'okani
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Hookani said:
Hi all,
Got a question/problem. I have my HD set up to receive email thru an exchange server but only to get the email. I still want to sync my contacts, calendar, etc. with the info in my desktop outlook. In the activesync window it shows microsoft exchange with email, and windows PC with contacts, calendar, notes and files but it doesn't seem to sync the info with the PC and only the exchange server. Any ideas what I may be doing wrong?
Thanks,
Ho'okani
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If you run Activesync, then select MENU, then OPTIONS, you should find a page where it details which type of information is sync'd, and with what device. You can then UNtick the items you don't want to sync with your Exchange Server, and tick which items you DO want to sync with your PC!
I'm not by any means an expert on Exchange Server, or ActiveSync, but I have something similar setup on my HTC Trinity.
That's the problem. I have only email checked in the exchange section and have the calendar and contacts and notes checked in the PC section but it seems to ignore the PC section selections and syncs all the exchange stuff even though it's unchecked.
Thanks,
Ho'okani
The other problem is that when I set up the exchange sever and hooked it up to my computer, it deleted all the contacts, calendar and notes in my device. So now I'm trying to figure out how to get all that info back on my device and still use exchange to get my email.
Thanks,
Ho'okani
Hookani said:
The other problem is that when I set up the exchange sever and hooked it up to my computer, it deleted all the contacts, calendar and notes in my device. So now I'm trying to figure out how to get all that info back on my device and still use exchange to get my email.
Thanks,
Ho'okani
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Hmmm! A tricky one! Just to test this, I setup my HD to sync email only with my companies Exchange server, and it synced quite happily, and didnt delete any other data (contacts etc.), which are still set to sync with my Laptop. I then tried a sync with Laptop and it synced those items (contacts and calender) and gave me no problems at all. (The only thing it DID do was enforce my companies security policy on the HD - which is an enforced PIN entry every hour of non-use. This is easily overriden by a Registry Hack anyway).
So to answer your question, I am afraid I do not now why you are sufferring this problem, as I cannot get it to occur on my HD - perhaps there are differences in the ROM you might be using - my Radio and ROM version details are contained in my signature (below) -- are yours the same?!
it is weird. I've gone so far as to delete the exchange server, delete the device and try to set up the partnership again and I still can't get my contacts and calendar back into the device. The exchange calendar items still remain on my device and no contacts.
Thanks,
Ho'okani
Just to test this, I setup my HD to sync email only with my companies Exchange server, and it synced quite happily, and didnt delete any other data (contacts etc.), which are still set to sync with my Laptop. I then tried a sync with Laptop and it synced those items (contacts and calender) and gave me no problems at all.
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I am right to assume you also have exchange mail set up on your laptop too? I have an exchange account set up on my laptop to get mail from the exchange server also.
I got my contacts and calendar back on my device, but I had to delete the exchange account on my laptop.
Thanks,
Ho'okani