iPhone The Missing Manul- P6:Apple’s iPhone is a breakthrough in design, miniaturization, and elegant software. This stunning, sleek, black-and-chrome touchscreen machine comes with cellphone, iPod, Internet, and organizer features—just about everything you need except a printed manual. Fortunately, David Pogue arrives just in time with iPhone: The Missing Manual: a witty, authoritative, full-color guide to unlocking the iPhone’s potential. | These account types require more setting up than the free Web accounts. Now you ll have to enter such juicy details as the Host Name for Incoming and Outgoing Mail servers. There s even more geeky goodness on the Advanced screen SSL Authentication IMAP Path Prefix and so on. If you don t know this stuff offhand you ll have to ask your Internet provider corporate tech-support person or next-door teenager to help you. Especially in the first version the iPhone s mail-setup process can involve quite a bit of time and troubleshooting. The iPhone can t check corporate Exchange mail unless the system administrator can be persuaded to turn on the server s IMAP feature. That s probably going to be a hard sell at most security-conscious corporations. There is hope however. Visto plans to unveil a software package by the end of 2007 that once installed by the system administrator will allow the iPhone to connect to Exchange mail servers without sacrificing security. Start buttering up your company s geeks now. When you re finished tap Save. The Two-Mailbox Problem It s awesome that the iPhone can check the mail from a POP mail account which is the sort provided by most Internet providers. This means however that now you ve got two machines checking the same account your main computer and your iPhone. Now you ve got the two-mailbox problem. What if your computer downloads some of the mail and your iPhone downloads the rest Will your mail stash be awkwardly split between two machines How will you remember where to find a particular message Fortunately the problem is halfway solved by a factory setting deep within the iPhone that says in effect The iPhone may download mail but will leave a copy behind for your desktop computer to download later. If you must know this setting is at SettingswMailwaccount namewAdvancedw Delete from server wNever. Email 139 Unfortunately that doesn t stop the opposite problem. It doesn t prevent the computer from downloading messages .
