To sync email:

• Open ActiveSync on your computer.
• Select Tools > Options and
• Place a check mark in the box next to Inbox (see screen shot)
• Select the OK button.
  

ActiveSync will sync your email to your Pocket PC.  Then if you select Tools > Options again, you can highlight the Inbox and then select the Settings button to the right to choose the specific Mail Folders, the amount of each email, the number of days' worth of emails you wish to sync as well as whether or not you wish to sync related file attachments.

The number of days you establish for your computer to sync to your Pocket PC is a moving number. For instance, if you set this number to 5 days, when you sync on Monday, you will sync any email you received during the previous 5 days (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday); then when you sync on Tuesday, the previous Thursday's emails will disappear from your Pocket PC and your received email from , Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday will get copied to your Pocket PC.

Configure POP3 or IMAP4 Messaging Accounts
When you configure POP3 or IMAP4 messaging accounts on the Pocket PC, you can retrieve and send email directly from the Pocket PC whenever you have an active GPRS/EDGE, WIFI, ActiveSync passthrough internet connection. Handling email in this fashion is more dynamic (real time) than syncing email through the Outlook E-Mail account.

Using POP3 or IMAP4 accounts enables greater flexibility when sending and retrieving email messages - all you need is an internet connection and you are not limited to having access to ActiveSync. However, since the Outlook E-Mail account is not used, any messages you send through your POP3 or IMAP4 messaging accounts never get transferred to your computer.

To configure a POP3 or IMAP4 messaging account, open up the Messaging application on your Pocket PC (tap Start > Programs > Messaging).

For WM5.0 Pocket PC, tap Menu > Tools > New Account; for Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PCs,  tap Accounts > New Account.  Then enter the email address for the new account in the "Enter e-mail address:" box and select Next	If you are connected to the internet, the Pocket PC will automatically configure some of the parameters of your account.  Select Next to proceed.
Input your name, user name, and Password in the space provided and tap Next.  Note that your User name is the first portion of your email address.	Input your Account type, and a descriptive name for this email account in the space provided and tap Next.
Input your ISP's specific server information regarding Incoming mail and Outgoing mail in the space provided (in most cases you can leave the Domain field blank). Tap the Options button.	On this page, you can configure your Pocket PC to automatically check for messages in regular intervals.  Since this can cause the battery to become depleted, I always leave these options blank.  Tap Next.

In the Options (2/3) screen you can specify how many days' worth of email you wish to retain on the Pocket PC.  The number of days you specify in the Options (2/3) screen is a moving number. For instance, if you set this number to 5 days, when you retrieve emails on Monday, you will retrieve any email you received during the previous 5 days (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday); then when you retrieve email on Tuesday, the previous Thursday's emails will disappear from your Pocket PC and your received email from Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday will get downloaded to your Pocket PC.

	Be sure to place a check mark in the box next to "Outgoing mail requires authentication" or else you may find that your are able to retrieve email messages by are not able to send any email messages. If you have difficulty sending email messages, you may also need to place a check mark in the box next to "Use separate settings," then tap the Outgoing Settings button.
	In the Outgoing Server Settings screen, you can enter the same User name and Password that you used in E-mail Setup (3/5) screen, if necessary.  Then tap the OK at the top right-hand side of the screen to return to the Options (2/3) screen.

Email Options
After you've set up your messaging account, you can establish a few additional settings:

Tapping the Signature button allows you to establish unique signatures for each email account you've created.  Tap the down arrow to the right of the "Select an account" dialogue box to select each email account.	Tapping the Message tab allows you to set additional items:
Tapping the Address tab allows you to specify where the Pocket PC searches for email addresses when you create new email messages.	Tapping the Storage tab allows you to set an option to store attachments to a storage card.

Problems sending emails
If you can retrieve emails but can not send messages:

• Enable outgoing email authentication:  Check the Options (2/3) screen to make sure you have placed a check mark in the box next to "Outgoing mail requires authentication".  If you still have problems sending emails, you may also need to tap the Outgoing Settings button and enter your User name and Password in the E-mail Setup (3/5) screen.
• Use a different SMTP Port Number:  By default, the Pocket PC uses Port 10 as the Outgoing SMTP.  To avoid abuses by spammers, some ISP's use a different SMTP port number.  You may need to check with your ISP to see if this is the applies.  If so, you will need to append the port number to the Outgoing mail server information found in the E-mail Setup (5/5) screen as follows:  smtpauth.earthlink.net:25.  In this example, I have appended port number 25 to my Outgoing mail server by appending a colon and the port number.

• Use an alternate SMTP server:  You may not be able to use your ISP's outgoing SMTP server at all.  Instead try using an alternate SMTP server, such as the one used by your cellular provider.  Or you could search the internet and find an alternative SMTP server.

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