[strommsarnac]

Old thread revived. Interesting comments being made. Being a MCSE/MCT and in IT for about 20 years, some of the things being done just don't make sense. I'm trying to be polite, so bear with me.

1. If you own a business, get your own domain with domain specific email. Seriously. I've had thousands of clients over the years and the one comment I keep hearing is "Wow, such and such uses @aol.com/@yahoo.com/@FREESERVICE.com for email? They must not have many customers." It's just not professional looking. Not to mention, you don't have any rights accorded you for that email address. It's not "yours". It's yahoo's or AOL's, etc. Be smart and protect your business and hard earned cash. There are people/companies out there who use those freebie email addresses to figure out what domain names they should squat on. If you can afford broadband for your business, you can afford your own domain and domain specific email.

2. Why the heck do some of you have multiple @'s for the same business email? Talk about confusing for clients. Or, maybe there's something to hide. I don't know, but it does make one think shady things are occurring.

3. NEVER use freebie email services for your business. At some point, you will have to change to another one. I can't count the number of freebie email hosts which have gone bye bye. Get your own domain, that way your customers will never have to change and you'll never have to worry about it.

4. If you don't want some company hosting your email, buy a small business solution. You can get a SBS2003/8 solution including the hardware with a five user license for under $1500.00. Anyone telling you otherwise is after your hard earned cash. Then the only thing you have to worry about is your Internet connection failing. Use the builtin POP3 conenctor and let someone like go daddy "host" your email and you have a fail over incase our connection goes down. I use this method since I run my consulting business from my home. When we lost power for 2 days this past summer, non of my mail was lost. When power came back, I brought my SBS2003 server back up, it sync'd with go daddy and then sync'd with my phone.

Windows Mobile directly syncs wirelessly with Exchange email, contacts, calendars, tasks. Everything you need. No reason to even connect the phone to a PC. No phone to PC sync is EVER needed. In fact, if you do both types of sync'ing, you'll have issues. I use the wireless method with many clients and they love it.

5. Email accounts on ANY mobile device are only as stable as the host is. Many free services limit the number of connections requests for a given time period.

6. Multiple accounts. I have 4 configured on my phone. I did not use the "Mobile Email" app. Honestly, I don't know what purpose it serves. Manually configure them yourself, that way you know it's done right. Not sure about "ME", but the way I do it, outbound email is specific to the account in use. By this I mean that when I'm looking at my outlook email and reply/new, the smtp server is my exchange server. When I'm looking at my personal RR email, outbound email goes through RR. Gmail, Yahoo, etc. All work fine, just configure them manually and don't use "Mobile Email".


7. RR email through WM is simple. Manually add the account, don't use "Mobile Email". You have to use FULL account name, Authentication and "Same name and password for sending email"). None of that complicated stuff posted above. I've been doing this since I got my HTC Touch back in March 2008.