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Chapter 4
Inbox: Sending and receiving e-mail
messages
Use Inbox to send and receive e-mail messages in one of these ways:
• Synchronize e-mail messages with Microsoft Exchange of or Microsoft
Outlook on your desktop computer
• Send and receive e-mail messages by connecting directly to an e-mail
server through an Internet service provider (ISP) or a network
Synchronizing e-mail messages
E-mail messages can be synchronized as part of the general
synchronization process. You will need to enable Inbox synchronization in
ActiveSync. For more information on enabling Inbox synchronization, see
ActiveSync Help on your desktop computer.
During synchronization:
• Messages are copied from the mail folders of Exchange or Oultook on
your desktop computer to the ActiveSync folder in Inbox on your device.
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 100KB
in size.
• E-mail messages in the Outbox folder on your device are transferred to
Exchange or Outlook, then send from those programs.
• E-mail messages in subfolder must be selected in ActiveSync on your
desktop computer in order to be transferred.
NOTE You can also synchronize e-mail messages with your desktop
computer from a remote location. For more information, see
Chapter 7.