Hello everyone

I appreciate any and all advice.

I am very forgetfull by nature so I must be able to check if I replied a mail and what I replied. Now somehow I can't get my sent-folder onto my iPAQ (not all those icons that tell me if I replied or forwarded).

I read the helpfiles and it says that is only possible on Microsoft pocket pc 2002 and later. I checked and have something newer...

What should I do?? I know Im an idiot but I just can't get those sent-messages into my pocketpc

Canally

Welcome to iPaqHQ!

Typically Activesync does not synchronize the Sent folder in Outlook. The Sent Folder in pocket inbox is items that you sent from the PPC. I am not sure but maybe Intellisync has the option to synchronize the Sent Folder in Outlook. Or just maybe what you can do is create a separate email folder and copy you Sent items to the new email folder. Then configure AS to synchronize that new folder.

Ted Whitely
whitelyt at ipaqhq DOT com

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Thank you for the welcome,

Why would changing the sent items folder work instead of leaving it all in the sent-items folder and sync that one??

If I double-click on Inbox in the Details screen of Active Sync I get the Mail syncronization settings, now why would all these folders be shown while only the inbox folder can be synced?? I just can't understand why another folder (one I create myself) can be synced and not all the 6 standard ones.

That really feels like a shortcoming, aren't these gadgets supposed to take time off your hands instead of making you create new folders putting everything in new folders so they can finally be synced??

I guess they should have hired a simple fool like me in the development team, or perhaps rewrite the guide into Canally-understandable language.

waiting hopefully for someone to point out the obvious solution,
Canally

Well Activesync has shortcomings. Yes it is true that in the Activesync inbox options you do see all folders (Sent folder being one of them). I think Microsoft planned things this way for a reason. Albeit it may seem stupid to the rest of us Microsoft may have had other plans.

If it was possible to completely synchronize the Sent folder on both PPC and PC how would you ever determine what was sent from the PPC versus the PC? This may not be important to you per se but it may be important to someone else. The same thing would hold true for the Draft folder. The Outbox folder is actually synchronized but only one way (from PPC to PC). When items are sent from the PPC it is placed in the Outlook folder. Items in this folder are sent to the PC via Activesync to Outlook's outbox folder on the PC. It is then sent via the PC.

The Pocket Inbox default is the Activesync Inbox folder(s) which is folders in Outlook on the PC. Any other email accounts that you build on the PPC are completely disconnected from Activesync.

I believe that is how Microsoft set things up and it works for some but may not work for others. This is how things work now and the only way to get you sent items in Outlook over to your PPC you will need to do some manual intervention to get things over. Or unless someone else has another suggestion.

Ted Whitely
whitelyt at ipaqhq DOT com

HP rx3715
Dell Axim X50v
HP 2215
Dell Axim X30

 

Hi,
I saw your message when searching the same question. I'm new to the forum and the following solution may have been put forward before. I picked it up somewhere else I cannot remember so apologies for not being able to acknowledge the origin. .
One answer is to create in Outlook etc, a "Sent Duplicate" folder and then create a rule to copy all sent messages to this folder. In 'Activesync' options for 'Inbox' you will need to tick this 'Sent Duplicate' folder.
After synchronizing my iPAQ4150, when you open 'Inbox' -> 'Activesync' -> 'Sent items' you will see a 'Sent Duplicate' Folder into which your sent items have been copied. It works for me.
On this general theme, it seems odd that something so simple and necessary to many people has not been catered for in the basic program. I am sure that someone else has a more efficient method.
Opera

Welcome to the site, Canally & Opera

I use Intellisync & the only standard option available is to sync the Inbox. So it looks like opera's method is the best one (for now, at least).