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Chapter 6
Managing Desktop E-Mail
and Beaming Information
In addition to web clipping and wireless Internet messaging, your
Palm VII™ organizer offers you the following features to help you
stay connected:
■ Managing desktop E-Mail : Using your organizer, you can read, reply
to, compose, and delete e-mail from your desktop E-Mail
application while you’re away from your desk.
Note: This feature, called Mail, is completely independent of the
iMessenger™ application, the application for wireless
Internet messaging. Mail does not use the transmitter or
the wireless communication service. See “The iMessenger
application differs from the Mail application” in Chapter
5 for details.
■ Infrared (IR) beaming : The infrared port located at the top of your
organizer lets you send data from your organizer — including
entire applications — to any other Palm Computing
® platform
device that’s close by and also equipped with an IR port.
Managing desktop E-Mail
away from your desk
Mail lets you manage the e-mail that you send and receive
through the E-Mail application on your desktop computer. You
can read, reply to, compose, and delete e-mail on your
organizer; but to send or receive e-mail, you must perform a
HotSync ® operation either locally, using the organizer cradle, or
remotely, using a Palm Modem ® accessory or other modem.
The key to Mail is that it truly synchronizes the mail in the Inbox of
your desktop E-Mail application with the mail on your organizer. For
example, if you delete e-mail items from Mail, your next HotSync
operation also deletes the e-mail items from your desktop E-Mail
application, so you never have to delete e-mail items twice. Similarly,
if you read an e-mail item on your organizer and leave it in your