Synching Outlook Mailboxes with iPhone and iPad mobile devices
Jun 11th, 2010 by Tim Skipper
I’ve been thinking about moving my email to a proper Microsoft Exchange server for some while now. I read my emails from a desktop PC, two laptops, an Apple iPhone 3GS and now an Apple iPad.
The desktop PC in my office is the Master, where all the mail is downloaded to and removed from the server into Microsoft Outlook 2007, with all the other laptops and mobile devices just downloading new mail. It means when I read and delete mail during the day, I have to clean it up on my main PC as well. It’s a pain in the butt.
So I finally took the plunge and signed up for a Microsoft Exchange hosted account with 1and1. It took about 5 minutes to configure and since it supports Microsoft ActiveSync, all my mobile devices and Outlook mailboxes are completely in sync all of the time. If I delete or read mail on one, a few seconds later it’s marked as read or deleted on all the others.
I wish I had done this months ago!
