9 Managing your desktop email
Setting up the Mail application on your computer
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9 Managing your
desktop email
One of Acer s10’s basic applications—Mail, enables you to manage the email you send
and receive through your computer’s email application. You can read, reply to,
compose, and delete emails on your Acer s10 once you’ve performed a HotSync
operation.
You can send or receive email after you’ve performed a HotSync operation, either
locally using your Acer s10’s cradle, or remotely using a modem.
Mail synchronizes the emails in the Inbox of your desktop email application with the
emails in the Inbox on your Acer s10.
You can do the following in Mail:
• View, delete, file, and reply to incoming emails.
• Create outgoing email items and drafts of email items.
• Create simple or complex filters, which will let you to decide which type of
email Acer s10 retrieves from your computer’s email application.
• Use your Acer s10 in its cradle to send and retrieve email items from your
computer’s email application.
Setting up the Mail application on your computer
Before you use the Mail application for the first time, make sure that your computer’s
email application is installed and running. You must also set up the Palm Desktop
software for use with your computer’s email application.
NOTE: For instructions on how to set up Palm Desktop sodtware, refer to "Installing Palm
Desktop software" on page 11.
Acer s10 supports various computer email applications, including:
• Microsoft Exchange (version 4.0 or higher)
• Eudora (version 3.0.3 or higher)
• Lotus cc: Mail (versions 2.5, 6.0, and 7.0).
You can view the full list of the supported applications when you set up Mail.