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Connecting directly to an e-mail server
You can send and receive e-mail messages by connecting
to an e-mail server. You’ll need to set up a remote
connection to a network or an ISP, and a connection to your
e-mail server.
When you connect to the e-mail server, new messages are
downloaded to the device’s Inbox folder. Also, messages in
the device’s Outbox folder are sent and messages that
have been deleted on the e-mail server are removed from
the device’s message folders.
Folder behavior with a direct connection to an e-mail
server
The behavior of the folders you create depends on whether
you are using POP3 or IMAP4.
• If you use POP3 and you move e-mail messages to a
folder you created, the link is broken between the
messages on the device and their copies on the mail
server. The next time you connect, the mail server will
see that the messages are missing from the device and
delete them. This prevents you from having duplicate
copies of a message, but it also means that you will no
longer have access to messages that you move to folders
created from anywhere except the device.
• If you use IMAP4, the folders you created and the e-mail
messages you moved are mirrored on the server.
Therefore, messages are available to you anytime you
connect to your mail server. This synchronisation of
folders occurs whenever you connect to your mail server;
create new folders or rename/delete folders when
connected.