A very annoying bug in pocket pc email handler is addressed by Microsoft which is confirmed in Windows Mobile 6.1 powered devices. While there is no complete fix for it, an annoying work-around is suggested by them temporarily.

If you have a Windows Mobile 6.1 based pocket pc configured to use a POP3 or an IMAP e-mail account, frequently you'll experience the following symptoms:

Even though you lose the ability to send e-mail messages, you continue to receive incoming e-mail messages. This behavior occurs because the e-mail account details are corrupted when the Windows Mobile 6.1-based device does not connect to the SMTP server.

A temporary sollution to get back your email working properly is to delete and re-create the email account. Maybe we need to keep doing this over and over again as this error re-occurs in the newly created account too. Also don;t forget that when you delete your account, you loose the messages saved and most importantly the un-sent messages in the outbox are deleted! Hopefully we get a fix soon, else the whole point of Windows Mobile is becoming useless when there are no proper mailing functionality.

More email problems Carty (59.92.6.xxx) 2008-10-25 10:02:05 Some people experience more and more problems with emails on pocket pc. Like the attachments not being downloaded or not visible if downloaded and so on.. Microsoft, please understand that over 80% of pocket pc users have bought windows mobile just for emails and if this is the case, it's going to be pathetic. It's good at-least for the exchange users where the above addressed problem doesn't occur. Reply | Quote 2   0

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