Saturday, December 27, 2008

Make mobile email more efficient with email forwarding and filtering solutions

Most of us have more than one email address these days. For example, I have separate email accounts for business, personal, news group, and web commerce needs. However, not all email accounts can be accessed directly from a Nokia mobile phone:

Some accounts might require SSL or APOP authentication, which is not supported on all phones.

Some accounts might require connections from computers in the same corporate network. The mobile phone connects from the wireless opera-tor's network, and hence they are certainly outside of most corporate firewalls.

Servers such as Microsoft Exchange are known to provide substandard POP/IMAP services. They prefer you to connect via their proprietary protocols, which are not supported on Nokia phones.

Even if you can access all your accounts from your phone, it is a hassle to thumb through the phone's lengthy menu options (especially for Series 40 devices) and check the mailboxes one by one. If you do not check all the mailboxes at one time, you might forget which ones you already checked the next time, and you'll have to go through all of them again. It would be nice to have a mobile-accessible email account that captures all your email messages in a single mailbox.

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