Retrieve e-mail messages
If you are offline, select
Options
>
Connect
to start a
connection to a remote mailbox.
Important: Exercise caution when opening
messages. E-mail message objects may contain
malicious software or otherwise be harmful to
your device or PC.
1 When you have an open connection to a remote
mailbox, select
Options
>
Retrieve e-mail
.
New
—to retrieve all new e-mail messages to your
phone.
Selected
—to retrieve only the e-mail messages that
have been marked.
All
—to retrieve all messages from the mailbox.
To stop retrieving messages, select
Cancel
.
2 After you have retrieved the e-mail messages, you can
continue viewing them online, or select
Options
>
Disconnect
to close the connection and view the
e-mail messages offline.
E-mail status icons are as follows:
New e-mail (offline or online mode): the
content has not been retrieved to your phone
(arrow points outward).
New e-mail: the content has been retrieved to your
phone (arrow points inward).
The e-mail message has been read.
The e-mail heading that has been read and the
message content has been deleted from the phone.
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3 To open an e-mail message, scroll to it and select it. If
the e-mail message has not been retrieved (arrow in
the icon is pointing outward) and you are offline, you
are asked if you want to retrieve this message from
the mailbox.
To view e-mail attachments, open a message that has the
attachment indicator (
), and select
Options
>
Attachments
. If the attachment has a dimmed indicator,
it has not been retrieved to the phone; select
Options
>
Retrieve
. In the
Attachments
view, you can retrieve,
open, save, or remove attachments. You can also send
attachments using a Bluetooth connection.
Tip! If your mailbox uses the IMAP4 protocol, you
can define how many messages to retrieve, and
whether to retrieve the attachments. With the
POP3 protocol, the options are
Headers only
,
Partially (kB)
, or
Msgs. & attachs.
.