Chapter 5 : Email and other messages 59
• Make sure your phone is on and you’re inside a coverage area before you
send or receive messages. If you want delivery of Microsoft Office
Outlook
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email using Microsoft Direct Push, make sure that your IT
organization uses Exchange Server 2007, or Exchange Server 2003 with
Service Pack 2.
Set up email: Common providers
Follow this procedure if you have a common email provider, for example,
AOL, EarthLink, or Yahoo! If you are setting up the Email application to work
with your corporate email account that uses Microsoft Exchange
ActiveSync, see Set up email: Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). If you
have a less common email provider, see Set up email: Other providers.
If the email account you set up takes advantage of the Synergy feature, then
setting up email also synchronizes the provider's calendar and contacts.
1 Open Email .
2 The first time you open Email, do one of the following:
• If this is the first email account you are setting up: Enter the email
address and password and tap Sign In.
• If you have already set up an account that takes advantage of the
Synergy feature and want to set up another one: Tap Add An
Account and enter the email address and password. Tap Sign In.
3 Any other time you open Email, open the application menu, tap
Preferences & Accounts, and tap Add An Account. Enter the email
address and password and tap Sign In.
4 Ta p Add An Account to add another account.
Set up email: Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync (EAS)
Follow this procedure to get email from an Exchange account.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN Get this info from your email provider or system
administrator:
• Mail server name or IP address for receiving mail
• Server domain name
• Your username and password
NOTE If your corporate EAS system utilizes policies such as remote wipe and
password enforcement (including minimum password length, allowed
number of failed password attempts, and other parameters), those policies are
supported in your EAS account on your phone. Check with your system
administrator for details.
1 Open Email .