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Hello everyone, Have a quick question for you. I run a small ecommerce business and need to manage about 5 email addresses. I want to usea hosted exchange such that my desktop, laptop, and WM6 phone are always synced. The problem is, as far as I know, exchange will allow only 1 address without multiple profiles, which isn't an option for my phone. I can easily setup aliases to send emails to one account, but is it possible to reply using those aliases? I don't want random people knowing my personal email address, but I also want to keep my "sent items" synced on all three devices in the case I need to refer to a sent email from any of the accounts/addresses/aliases. What are my options for this?
August 15th, 2008 5:14am

If you are talking about the ability to view more than one mailbox at a time via Windows Mobile, I am pretty sure that this is not possible with any version of ActiveSync. I occasionally see requirements like this, but it is not real common. Unfortunately, often technology is designed fora 98% solution. Even viewing multiple, separate mailboxes (and replying with different addresses) is not very elegant with Outlook.
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August 15th, 2008 8:26am

Jim, Thank you for the quick reply. I assumed this would work best with an exchange, but maybe not. Currently, I have multiple POP3 accounts setup and it works beautifully for 1 computer running outlook. To reply with a different address, I simply choose my reply with account below the send button. The problem is keeping my inbox AND sent items synced on my phone, desktop, and laptop. Is this possible with POP3? I could still do exchange to synce my calendar, primary email, contacts, tasks, etc
August 15th, 2008 5:54pm

Hi, Of course, this can work with Exchange as long as the POP3 is configured for Outlook. Regarding your second question, it seems that the issue was not caused by POP3. Whether any error message was received? Thanks Allen
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August 19th, 2008 6:28am

Unfortunately, POP3 will NOT keep your Sent Items, Calendar, and Contacts sync'ed. IMAP might do some of that, but I'm thinking not. Outlook can keep all of these accounts synced (with different profiles) with the exception of the mobile clients.
August 19th, 2008 8:33am

Thanks for the input guys. Sorry it has taken me so long to reply, it has been crazy busy. Anyway, I have sgned up for a hosted exchange and so far have the following setup: Outlook on Desktop and Laptop: Configured for primary account to be the exchange account Added POP3 accounts to the main profile This works great because all of the mail I send (through exchange or POP) goes to the same "sent items" folder, which gets synced Mobile Outlook on Phone: Exchange server configured to sync, works great POP3 accounts setup, but they do not fall under the same profile, therefore they have their own "sent items" The POP sent items are NOT synced.... Any work arounds? One possibility I thought of was to create another account, say sent@domain.com. Then any email I send with my phone via on of the POP accounts, I wil BCC the sent@ address. Is it possible to configure exchange to automatically place all recieved emails into the "sent items" folder? Bad this is I would have to remember to BCC the address. A more automated solution would be prefered, but I don't know exchange well enough to come up with anything better. Thanks!
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August 21st, 2008 5:17pm

Anyone?
August 28th, 2008 3:55pm

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