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Blackjack and push email for pop 3
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Posted by: robert1_1

OK, I've read through a whole bunch of searches and I'm still not sure I can do what I want here with my blackjack.

I have a pop 3 email account that is associated with my website hosted by my webserver. I have set up a pop 3 account on the blackjack and now I get all my emails but it has to poll and the minimum interval is every 15 minutes.

I do I get this to work so that it doesn't have to poll (which is a battery drain) and it just notifies me when new emails arrive?

With 2G cingular had mymode so I just forwared all my emails there and it notified me as soon as an email arrived. Though I wasn't able to send emails from my primary account. Any suggestions?

Posted by: DubDub

Somewhere I remember reading about mail2Web, mail street and similar services that might be able to do what you are asking about.

Posted by: robert1_1

Anyone know the details of how to set up what I'm trying to do?

Posted by: Razor1973

It's called mail2web Live and it gives you a not always very stable Exchange account with 1GB mailbox and 100MB per message, all for free (Google ads on the web interface).

Check out this post where someone goes through the setup. Keep in mind this is for an S60 3rd Edition phone, but there are some pointers on there that will help you with your WM5 device as well.

On your BlackJack, you go to your Outlook Email, hit Menu|Settings, enter "mobile.exchange.mail2web.com" as your server, check SSL, enter your full mail2web address as your user name, your password and "ad2" as you domain (no idea why), then check whatever you want to synchronize and you're done. You now have Exchange pushing your e-mail.

Good luck!

By the way, if you still want to keep your POP3 account, you can set it up so that it forwards all the mail you receive to the mail2web account. You just will be replying from that one and not your POP3 account if you do decide to reply from the phone.

Posted by: robert1_1

Razor,

Thank for the info. Though I thought I saw that live was $9.99 a month. Maybe I mis read that.

I do want to keep my pop 3 account which is my primary account and when I send from my blackjack I want it to appear as if that is where my replies are coming from. So, I think I could still keep my pop 3 account on the bj but turn the scheduling off and then manually pull the emails only if I want to respond to an email. And this way I could use the inbox to read only and get pushed base email. My 2 primary objectives are 1)immediate notification rather than 15 minutes. 2)help preserve battery life by avoiding pulling every 15 minutes.

Posted by: Razor1973

To me, that's a lot of work and something that would get to me after a while, but it does what you want, so go for it.

Posted by: aaronmarks

You can use Mail2Web Personal for $2 a month which comes with most of the features most light users should ever need that don't require doing scheduling from Outlook. If you need to do scheduling from Outlook then you need MAPI and RPC over HTTPS support. To get these features you have to sign up for Mail2Web's $12/month service. If you can get away with just using Mozilla Thunderbird most of the time or Microsoft Entourage (which actually allows you to use many Exchange features via reading OWA data, but only on an Apple) then you can do the personal account. It's truly a steal at $2/month, and is probably the best deal if you have an Apple computer so that you can use Entourage which uses HTTPS vs RPC over HTTPS like Outlook. For those who don't know though RPC over HTTPS is MAPI so you get all the Exchange features whereas OWA only supports some features. OWA via many applications/devices doesn't suppot Task synchronization, and OWA doesn't support category synchronization at all.

Posted by: Razor1973

Do you realize mail2web Life is free and offers him what he wants? Except for being able to send e-mails from his POP account, but none of the paid solutions offer him that either.

Posted by: aaronmarks

I suggest paying the minimal $12/month and just getting their professional service that lets you set your account up in Outlook using RPC over HTTPS

Posted by: DubDub

If its important enough to be THAT connected, then go for it. If you can wait 15 minutes, save a few bucks!

Posted by: robert1_1

It's not so much that I need to be instantly connected. I can wait the 15 minutes. I was just under the impression that push based email would save on batterh life over auto connecting every 15 minutes. From what I've read is sounds like doing push with mail2web actually is more of a drain on the battery. So, I don't think I will be doing this.

Posted by: Razor1973

robert1_1, Direct Push (Exchange, mail2web's solution) will definitely not drain your battery more than pulling every 15 minutes. Try it and you will see.

DubDub, no need to pay for push. Like I said, mail2web is push and it's free.

aaronmarks, again, why pay for it when you can get it for free? The original poster's need is to get his e-mail on his phone, not his desktop's Outlook, and that's what paying will get him in addition to what the free account offers.

Posted by: aaronmarks

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Originally Posted by Razor1973

robert1_1, Direct Push (Exchange, mail2web's solution) will definitely not drain your battery more than pulling every 15 minutes. Try it and you will see.

DubDub, no need to pay for push. Like I said, mail2web is push and it's free.

aaronmarks, again, why pay for it when you can get it for free? The original poster's need is to get his e-mail on his phone, not his desktop's Outlook, and that's what paying will get him in addition to what the free account offers.

It sounds really strange to me that somee wouldn't need to get their email on their computer equally as much as on their phone. It seems really inconvenient to me to have to use ONLY webmail. To each his own though and if he can honestly cope with solely webmail on his computer then, go for the free mail2web.

Although even with just moving to paying $2 a month you get to lose the ads, imap email, and the ability to import exisiting contacts.

Posted by: maevro

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Originally Posted by aaronmarks

It sounds really strange to me that somee wouldn't need to get their email on their computer equally as much as on their phone.

Huh? I work a lot of hours and don't use a computer at work so I use my phone as my primary source of email. Even when I am at home, if my phone, which is next to me, gets email, ill check it faster on the phone.

I have 3 email accounts on my BJ. Personal mail server through POP, gmail through POP and Hotmail through a quick link. I usually have less problems with push if my outlook is closed on my computer.

Posted by: jlczl

I use the free service from mail2web and am very pleased.