Exchange type software

[5teve]

Hi guys

A question for the clever people :)

We are running our own business now and it involves being out of the house all day. To make life a little better we will be using smart phones soon, as long as the providers get their backsides into gear for stocking them, they will be android based.

As it stands email is recieved via outlook on one of the desktop machines at home. I can obviously download email from IInet onto the phone, but the issue is that i dont know how i can sync the sent messages with the desktop machine as our sent messages are obviously important for traceability.

Due to this i was thinking along the lines of an exchange type setup where the phone hooks into it so anything recieved or send goes to the mail box.

Does anyone have any experience of setting anything up like this (ideally free and windows based max 2 users) or have any negatives with this setup (like huge data usage on the phone) or can anyone suggest any sync software that will sync sent items also to outlook?

Ta

Steve

[Tombie]

Easier

Just get your provider to give you an IMAP mail server rather than POP

Then the mail is held 'server based' and updates on all systems accessing the same IMAP account.

My dot MAC account is IMAP and so is TRT....

I have fully sync-ed email everywhere...

[5teve]

Thanks Mike

Excellent idea.. and i thought it was the solution unfortunatley IInet dont keep outbound email. Imap is set up and working already.. but its the sent email i want to sync.. and that stays with the desktop / mobile it was sent from.

They suggested the only way is with a mail server...

Any ideas? the only other way is using a sync program that syncs messages also.

Thanks for the idea tho...

Steve

[Tombie]

Mail server isnt a bad idea...

Gives you infinite control, multiple named accounts etc...

Theres a lot of mail servers available, including the one I use with my MobileMe subscription... Not bad value every year and will work with PC based stuff to.