Helpful Hints for Treo 755p Email -- Anyone?

[toydollz]

Below are 10 things I have noticed about VersaMail for my Palm Treo 755p.

1) It forces an underline under some things, such as attachments, in the wrong place so I can't download the attachment. For example, 340954.pdf has the numbers underlined because it thinks it's a phone number. Usually it's pretty cool, though. I only had to click a phone number (underlined by VersaMail) that someone gave me in an email. I had the choice to click Dial and I did. Made it easy to call.

2) It doesn't show the headers at all. You can't see who the messages are "To" unless you work kind of hard and even then you can't tell sometimes. Also it usually shows the people's names in the From area instead of their email addresses.

3) It's hard to control in the settings to keep it from making me click "more" at the bottom to scroll to the next page of the email. But I think I have that one solved. I just added the largest size possible for the email size.

4) I don't know how to make everything concerning my emails download to my card instead of my device. But maybe I'd figure that out if I got the backup program.

5) There are no folders showing, like for my Yahoo account.

6) The address book is awful. How I fixed this, but it is still not flawless, is I imported my yahoo contacts into a .vcf file and emailed it to myself. While in VersaMail, I clicked on the .vcf file and it automatically (or maybe I had to click OK) imported all my contacts into the VersaMail for my yahoo account. Which I had thought originally would be automatic but it's not. But at least I found out how to do this. (The only thing is that if you have not entered people's names out in your web-based Yahoo to be connected with the email address, then it's also left out in your .vcf file.)

7) Another thing I'll mention that is VERY helpful if you haven't figured this out yet. I use Yahoo on my home computer and the same Yahoo account using VersaMail on my Treo. How to synchronize: Let's say you are on the way to work and have your Treo in hand, and want your most recent Yahoo mail inbox (what's on the server) to show. Here are the Steps: "Select All" then "Delete" but uncheck "Also Delete from Server" and click "OK." Next Step: "Empty Trash."

[An aside: If you get a prompt here where one of the answers is "Both," choose "Both," because you have obviously, then, previously deleted email from the server when you meant to do it. Then also choose "Yes" to update it with the server to tell it that you deleted those previously. It won't affect any emails you chose not to delete from the server when you just now temporarily erased everything in the inbox.]

After Emptying the Trash, click "Get" to get all your emails from your inbox from the server. All the ones you have deleted in the past but haven't deleted from the server, will all come back to your Treo. Voila! Your mail is synched.

8) Another good thing to mention is that VersaMail lets me easily toggle from one email account to another.

9) Another thing to mention is that, after a crash then a HotSync, all I lose are my email passwords and possibly also the incoming and outgoing mail server information. However, the inbox with all my emails remains exactly the way it last looked on my handheld since the last time I synched (whether or not it's that way on the server).

10) One LAST thing to mention is that, when you set up your email program on your handheld, it is possible that you have to use your carrier's (Sprint, etc.) outgoing mail server instead of the one you would normally use if you were on your home computer. This is because spammers have ruined it for everyone else so they have it blocked.

Has anyone else learned things along these lines or has helpful hints for handheld email?

[Viventis]

Regarding #10, check with your email server to see if any change is needed to route outgoing mail on your Treo. I figured out (the hard way) that the outgoing server for Charter is not my regular charter.net but charterinternet.com instead.

[chillywilly]

As for #4, I wish there were an option to store all of the emails, attachments, etc. to my miniSD card. Chatter does this and stores the entire email database on the card.

Moving stuff off to the card and an intuitive setting would be a nice addition to VersaMail.