WM6 and POutlook ...

[Phil750]

Couple of things I've noticed thus far ...

1. Take care in the settings when making a new account. Particularly the "Advanced Settings" link-looking things.

2. The new placement of buttons (delete message, send/receive) is much better.

3. Anyone else unable to download attachments? I keep getting "This attachment cannot be found. Download attachment again?" despite it quite clearly having downloaded it the first time.

[spartanrob]

Couple of things I've noticed thus far ...

1. Take care in the settings when making a new account. Particularly the "Advanced Settings" link-looking things.

2. The new placement of buttons (delete message, send/receive) is much better.

3. Anyone else unable to download attachments? I keep getting "This attachment cannot be found. Download attachment again?" despite it quite clearly having downloaded it the first time.

I have to agree with #2 (maybe it's just a learning curve) but having the Forward buried under the reply menu makes no sense. I also don't like the delete button on the soft key, IMHO having the New command there makes more sense.

[Phil750]

Ah ha! I figured it out. There's the option to save attachments to the storage card. Turned that option off, and it works just fine now.

[edmc]

Some of you may have seen my and others' posts complaining of poor POP3
sync'ing with comcast.net email servers:

on TreoCentral (http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?t=142113)

on HowardForums (http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1154548)

Suffice it to say that comcast.net doesn't like the attempt by WM5
PocketOutlook to negotiate an SSL session. It takes PocketOutlook
roughly 60 seconds to give up and revert to not using SSL. Too long
for my comfort especially when no calls are possible (unless 3G) during
this conversation and some might want to "poll" for new email frequently.

I am hoping that either WM6's PocketOutlook has fixed this debacle - or,
in the absence of a fix, the RegEdit outlined in those posts still works.

Of course Comcast could make matters much better by actually supporting SSL - but I'm not holding my breath...

[pleiades]

Some of you may have seen my and others' posts complaining of poor POP3 sync'ing with comcast.net email serversPOutlook syncs with Gmail POP3 + SSL without a problem. Looks like it could be a Comcast issue.

[edmc]

POutlook syncs with Gmail POP3 + SSL without a problem. Looks like it could be a Comcast issue.

Indeed, it is PRECISELY a Comcast issue. In fact, I believe some who use gmail have noted that SSL is REQUIRED. So, the workaround to get Comcast to work (by disabling SSL) actually prevents gmail use.

Regardless, for those that DON'T use gmail (or any other email server requiring SSL), this workaround (in WM5) is sufficient to get Comcast email working.

I'm just asking if this workaround is possible in WM6 - can anybody try it out? It's quite simple to enable & disable.

[xclerk]

i've been unable to send emails with attachments using gmail in poutlook.

i am however able to send emails without attachments just fine.

anyone have any ideas? I posted this in another forum, but figure this would get a response.

Thanks.

[RF9]

I've noticed a very odd thing.
On WM5, I could connect to Yahoo IMAP, but only over AT&T. If I did bluetooth over activesync, it would not log in.
On WM6, I can connect both over AT&T as well as over bluetooth activesync. Of course if I try to connect with outlook express on my PC, I get a log in failure (intentional on Yahoo's part I believe.)

In any case, Yahoo IMAP is apparently allowing pocket outlook to connect, but not PC based outlook. It works very well, HTML email is great, attachments are agreat, and sub folders sync.

My favorite new feature, hot keys!!
Hold down on "H" to get a list of hot key commands.
Now I can delete by pressing and holding "D"
Move messages to folders with "M"
Mark read/unread = "K"
Load more of message = "L"

You get the picture. I just don't have to hit "menu" first, just press and hold the buttons. Just like the good old days on PalmOS with snappermail.
If this feature was in WM5, I feel like a total idiot.