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Originally Posted by VinceC
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My first issue is with email.
The second problem is with my contacts.
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Your first issue....it's difficult. As far as I can see, mobile emailing is one area where the whole Palmtop/Handheld thing let's us down a bit. It promises so much but doesn't YET deliver.
Firstly, sync'ing with Outlook is, in my own opinion, useless. It doesn't sync anything other than Inbox (so all my filtered incoming email would - if I used Outlook - not get sync'd, leaving only the unfiltered spam and trash to get sync'd) and it also doesn't (on my setup - others have more success) sync the sent items.
Also - when i want to reply to something I generally want it to go *now* and not have to wait what might be ten hours before I get back to the desktop to sync and send via Outlook. And if I do have to wait till then then I'd rather wait and use the keyboard anyway.
At the moment i overcome these issues in the following way:
I have a POP3 mail account for my domain. I also have a free dial-up POP3 account (with FreeUK). I have the domain POP3 account set up on the Axim and have it set to NOT delete email from the server. This way I can make sure I can read email at home and on the Axim. When I SEND an email from the Axim, I always BCC it to the FreeUK email address. This is only checked and downloaded on the desktop. This way I do get a copy of my reply sent to my desktop PC. It works but it's a bit messy.
The other option, and one that I've not had the time to get working right, is to see if your ISP offers IMAP email. Using IMAP, the email itself is stored on the ISP servers and you read/reply etc directly on there (or at least sync to the servers folders). Using this method, marking an email as read on the desktop will automatically mark it as read on the handheld when you next sync with the IMAP servers. Similarly, sending an email from the Axim will show in the sent items on both the desktop and the handheld.
You can use this method to cross platforms - you may have a dual boot Windows/Linux PC and a handheld and a smartphone and they can all access the same IMAP mail server and all see the same things. It works, and I am told, works well. However some ISP's have compatibility problems with some email clients using IMAP I find.
Your second query - Contact. Again, another failing in the Microsoft camp, in that Activesync doesn't sync sub-folders in Contacts. The only way around it is to move all your contacts to the main Contacts folder and then put them into categories. You can set Activesync to only sync certain categories (so acheiving the same as sub-folders) and you can set Outlook to only show certain categories in certain views/filters.
It looks messy but it does actually work better than folders as I have many contacts who cross over into two or three categories and that would be hard to do with folders.
I hope that this heps you out a bit!