I currently have a work pop email account and use the 6700 to dial in to get emails. This works fine except, I now have a need to use my phone as a "Quasi" pager for email arrival. Currenlty, the alarm "for new mail" rings after every dial in so i really won't know without looking every few minutes if I truly have a new email. A push email system would do the trick, but my corporate IT office is VERY stingy about exchange and will not include me with an account.

So I either have to migrate to Blackberry, or figure out how to get Push without echange server. I have a lot of third party porgrams so i really don't want to go to blackberry. (not to mention I am a Audible addict and blackberry won't play .AA files so I also have to get an extra audio player)

Any suggestions?

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Billboardguy

Depends on who your carrier is. Verizon has a package that may work for you. Check out their web site. Other carriers MAY have something similar. I think, though, that you'll have to have a computer working all the time for it to work.

You can also set the 6700 to check the mail box periodically through messenger - it's in the Options - "Connect and check for messages every:" and it will.

Warning - push or any of the options listed above may run the battery down much quicker than otherwise. I have the extended battery and use GroupWise push mail - good thing I have the extended battery.

Warning #2 - Blackberry, in my vested opinion, sucks. This is a no blackberry zone.

Good luck!

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It's working for me, there must not be anything wrong!

I'll try the check every email option. I use sprint and the have Good Link, but you're right you have to have your outlook running all the time. This is problematic due to our IT doing forced updates ant auto reboots our machines every so often. This is necessary for me to participate in the Amber alert program, so being down even for a little while could be disasterous. I agree that Blackberry stinks, but it may infact be my only option.

I searched this topic and i saw a posting for mail2web, can anyone tell me if this would be an option and how it would work?

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Billboardguy

If you have Sprint, you could forward to your sprint email account and have it send an SMS to you when you get new mail. I'm not sure how that works with other carriers, but I think they all can do it.

ran-o-matic has a good idea too. you may run in to an IT policy that won't allow you to forward company emails to an internet account so make sure you test it.

For what I was describing before:
- go to options
- select account
- next
- next
- next
- in the server information page, select the Options box
- you'll now see the option to connect automatically

If you don't have something like phonealarm to alert you audibly when you have new messages, you may want to look in to it.

Tom

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It's working for me, there must not be anything wrong!

I have an hosted exchange account outside of my work. I use a product called email redirect to foward email from my business account to my outside exchange account, this does require a pc running all the time at work though.

If you are not using an exchange account look in this forum for a nice program called pushmail. You install it on your PocketPC and it will look for a specially formated messge that you sms to the Pocket PC everytime you get email. Several email providers allow a notification message to be sent everytime you get email. Fastmail, fusemail, runbox are only a few. All of these provide imap capability and combined with the pushmail option will give you a true pushmail solution. The only other thing with this is make sure you have a good sms plan with your phone provider.

You can also sign up for a free seven beta account and this is a very good service also.

In all of my testing I use the following solution currently.

1. Forward my business email to my private exchange account with Sperrysoftware email redirect.
2. I am not currently using the exchange push feature because of the issues with directpush and having to hit send on the phone two times to start a phone call.
3. I use pushmail on my Pocket PC with a sms forward to "push my messages" to my phone. In my tests a "push" this way takes about a minute until it hits my PocketPC.

I will use this method until the phone send problem is taken care of in the next release for the PocketPC.

Take a look at pushmail (free solution), seven beta (free), and sperry email redirect (not free). These should provide you with a good solution.

Thanks

John

Thanks, tojohnso, unfortunelty that is how I already have it set up, every 15 mins. The alarm now rings every 15 minutes when it checks, whether I have a new message or not. This what I need to change. I need it to ring only with a new message is "pushed" to the phone.

Thanks for the suggestion though. I could have messages forwarded, but how to get it as an sms -I'm not sure what to do?

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Billboardguy

Eurecka!! the forward as an sms did the trick. Anyone else want to do this the email address is your phone number
ie 2225551212@messaging.spritnpcs.com, and the subject is sent as an sms message. Now it will have an exclusive ring that i know is a amber alert.

now how can a get an alrm to repeat?

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Billboardguy

Kerio Mail Hosting is a great service on the market - it does the same thing exchange server does, like syncing contacts, calendars, and email. The push mail is wonderful. There are a couple of different providers on Kerio's website, but www.keriomailhosting.com has the lowest price and has provided great service for me.