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P900 E-Mail Features
The P900 E-Mail client supports the following standards:
POP3 Post Office Protocol 3
IMAP4 Internet Message Access
Protocol
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extension
These standards are supported by most Internet Service Providers and many corporate environments. Any
number of E-Mail accounts may be set up – a typical configuration will be one business and one personal
account. OTA configuration of E-Mail and ISP accounts is supported. E-Mail accounts and associated ISP
accounts may be remotely configured over the air.
Built-in password generators from RSA Security and Secure Computing and make it possible for the P900 to
connect corporate networks which use these popular access controls, so allowing corporate e-mail to be
used.
When connected via GPRS, automatic polling can be used so that E-Mail is automatically collected and
presented in the Inbox. Controls are provided to filter messages based on size, enabling cost and download
time to be managed. Another option enables only e-mail headers to be presented in the inbox. Headers are
quick to download. The user may read and select headers and request the message to be downloaded.
Attachments may be viewed using the built-in viewers for Microsoft
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Acrobat (PDF). More viewers may be loaded from the supplied CD-ROM. See Viewer section for more
information.
A signature may be set up so that essential details are automatically copied to the end of each outgoing
e-mail.
The supplied PC Suite for P900 enables E-Mail to be synchronised with Microsoft
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Notes . During synchronisation, new e-mail from the PC is transferred in to the corresponding 'Synchronised
e-mail account' inbox on the P900. Messages and replies written using this account on the P900 are
transferred and sent via the PC.
Web and WAP based e-mail can, of course, be accessed using the P900's browser.
E-Mail Fetch and Delete Operation
The P900 is designed to work either as the only means of accessing e-mail, or to work together with a PC
which accesses the same e-mail account. It is useful to explain how each case works.
E-Mail account accessed by the P900 alone
The P900 Messages application fetches e-mail from the POP server using the COPY method. This means
that e-mails are copied from the server and therefore two copies exist, one at the server and one in the P900
e-mail inbox.
When the P900 connects to the POP server, an e-mail synchronisation process takes place that follows
these three simple rules:
P900/P908 White Paper, December 2003
POP is used to copy, move and delete messages from an
incoming mail server in the network
IMAP is also used to copy, move and delete messages
from an incoming mail server. IMAP has more features
than POP, but the P900 behaves in the same manner
whichever is used.
MIME is a protocol describing data, for example to define
the attachments included in an e-mail.
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