Android synching with Outlook

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TeaLeaf

October 10, 2010, 02:24:53 PM
As a non-Outlook user I wanted the opinion/expertise of someone who does on this question please.

My father is a blackberry user and fed up with it, I've talked to him about Android and the Desire Z in particular as he wants a keyboard.  He has an email account he connects to using Outlook and the thing he likes about Blackberry is the 'push' email notification feature.  He wants similar on his new phone but has to continue using Outlook for business reasons, so dumping everything onto gmail is not an option.

Is there a nice simple solution in Market for push email notification (or short timer refresh) so he knows when he has a new email from a POP3 account (and will not delete it from the server when it is downloaded tot he phone) and that will allow the sent email to go back into the POP3 account for later download into Outlook 'sent' folder?

Or is there a simpler way to do it that I have overlooked?

Help please as I have not used Outlook for a while now and never with an Android phone.
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October 10, 2010, 03:45:52 PM
Quote from: TeaLeaf;317694Or is there a simpler way to do it that I have overlooked?

Help please as I have not used Outlook for a while now and never with an Android phone.
The stock e-mail application in Android supports both POP3, IMAP and Exchange mail. Now I've only used it for Exchange mail myself, but I don't see that it should be any different with POP3 (I don't know for sure if it supports push notifications when using POP3, but you should at least be able to configure it to check at an interval of your choice). I would also assume that you can configure how it should treat the messages it fetches from the POP3 server (whether to delete them, leave the, keep them unread etc.).

And also, on a side note: that he has a POP3 account has nothing to do with Outlook. Outlook is just a simple e-mail reader in the same way as Thunderbird (and the stock e-mail application on Android for that matter). Just to make sure you have the right understanding of it :)
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October 12, 2010, 02:23:31 PM
I use gsyncit to sync my work outlook to my gmail, that app can do anything!
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