How does wireless E-mail work with ActiveSync?

Following the post on the availability of wireless synchronization direct from CommuniGate Pro, a few people have asked what E-mail data is available on their mobile device via CommuniGate Pro's AirSync. The ActiveSync settings on the mobile phone or PDA may allow you to specify the following configuration options:

  1. From how far back in the past should data be synchronized? On some devices you can tell the server to sync only with E-mail messages dating back as far as 1 week excluding intentionally all E-mail messages you have on the server.
  2. How much data from each E-mail should be downloaded from the server? If you choose to not download all contents of each E-mail message, you will see a link inside each message on your device offering to "download the entire message". If you select to do that the message will be downloaded in its entirety the next time you connect.
  3. There is also an option for downloading attachments automatically with a maximum size threshold. If an attachment is larger than the maximum size specified a link to download the entire attachment should appear in the message.
  4. Which E-mail account folders should be synchronized? If you have 40 folders in your account, you should see them all in ActiveSync, but only those that you explicitly marked for synchronization will contain messages.

These are all functions of an ActiveSync with AirSync E-mail client in Windows Mobile, and CommuniGate Pro supports them all. The live test of these features is still available for accounts created at http://www.talktoip.com.

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