Retrieving e-mail messages
If you are offline, select
Options
→
Connect
to start a connection to a remote mailbox.
Important: E-mail messages may contain viruses or otherwise be harmful to your
device or PC. Do not open any attachment if you are not sure of the trustworthiness
of the sender.
1 When you have an open connection to a remote mailbox, select
Options
→
Retrieve
:
•
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, press
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.
Fig. 11 Mailbox with
different status icons.
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E-mail status icons:
- new e-mail (offline
or online mode), the
content has not been
retrieved to your phone.
- new e-mail, the
content has been
retrieved to your phone.
- e-mail message has
been read.
- e-mail heading that
has been read and the
message content has been
deleted from the phone.
3 To open an e-mail message, press
. If the e-mail message has not been retrieved
(arrow in the icon is pointing outwards) and you are offline, you will be 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
Bluetooth.
Tip! If your mailbox uses the IMAP4 protocol, you can define how many messages to
retrieve, and whether to retrieve the attachments or not. With the POP3 protocol,
the options are e-mail headers only, partially (kB), or messages and attachments.