[DalesWife]

I've had the 6800 for nearly two years, but I'm afraid I don't use it to it's full capacity...just a bit technically challenged. This site is a wealth of information - I come here before ever even trying to call Sprint! You're all so smart - so please forgive my ignorance here:

PPC 6800 w/wm6.1
Syncs to HP laptop w/XP & Outlook 2007

I just don't understand OUTLOOK at all. I mean, I know it's a calendar/contacts/tasks "list" of sorts, but I don't get the benefit of running your email through it. Then, if your computer crashes, all your emails are stuck in Outlook, right? Rather than just going directly to the website and accessing your emails? Seems like a lot of work to me.

So, I sync my 6800 to my laptop simply to keep Contacts/Tasks/Calendar and Programs consistent. As far as my email, I have a paid POP3 from my own website with GoDaddy. For the past two years, it's been great, I hook the 6800 up to the laptop and all my contacts/appointments/programs, etc syncs to the phone.

But I never ran my email through the phone, since on my laptop I don't run my email through Outlook - I go directly to my GoDaddy account and check it/delete it as I need to. Problem is, I would end up having to put every email address in separately, enter it once in my GoDaddy EMail Address Book and then into my Outlook contacts area. Then, in order to send/receive emails, I would have to run them through a separate Sprint email address, which wasn't a hassle because everything worked by sending/receiving automatically once it was set up. Nobody knew I had the Sprint email because it was masked as my GoDaddy email and anybody who replied, it relayed there.

Now I hear that Sprint is eliminating all thier email address in December so I'm not going to be able to do it that way any more. I'm told I have two options, just have GoDaddy EMail come directly to my phone, which is easy enough, but then I still have to enter contact email addresses twice.

Or I can run my email through Outlook. But the problem is I know NOTHING about Outlook, I only use it as a Contacts List and a Calender. I've tried googling, yahooing, everything and I can't find any articles about this. I guess I just don't know if the benefit of only having to enter email addresses once outweighs potentially losing emails if your laptop/desktop crashes/is stolen/is lost, or if there are any other benefits to actually USING Outlook at all. Are there any special add-ins/programs that will make my 6800 more useful to me?

Does this even make sense? Like I said.....just a bit technically challenged. *apologies*