For those of your fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to be running Direct Push off a company-policed Exchange server; there might be instances in which company policies (or just plain inflexible IT personnel) might select the "auto-lock" option and enforce it as a policy on your device.
Nothing wrong with that - except that the minimum password […]

If you have read the first few articles of my Direct Push Guide, you would probably have noticed that Direct Push is very much tied into Microsoft Exchange.  In fact, Microsoft Exchange itself forms a critical part of the Direct Push architecture – from the earlier AUTD implementation as well as the current iteration available […]

I first came across an article condemning Windows Mobile’s "Security Problems" in its push mail implementation only earlier today.  Because I have been writing about Direct Push over the last 2 weeks, I was naturally intrigued.  Now, whilst I do rather like the current Direct Push implementation, I am no fan-boy either.  I like Direct […]

I thought long and hard not about the contents of this article, but about the title. While sure to generate some controversy, this is what I believe to be the case. My personal opinion is that the current implementation of Direct Push overall is better than RIM’s BlackBerry device where it comes to […]

From the earlier section "When nudge comes to shove: How push is Direct Push", we talked about three methods of retrieving Email available to Windows Mobile 5.0 devices onwards – by polling, Direct Push, or manually. All three methods of retrieving your Email ride on top of your standard mobile technologies such as GPRS, […]

It might not be immediately obvious to the beginner; but there are actually three primary ways for retrieving your Email on a Windows Mobile 5.0 MSFP device. Depending on your data plan, preference and requirements, this flexibility is actually pretty useful.

The push mail that this guide focuses upon is implemented using a Windows Mobile 5.0 device with the Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP) together with a Microsoft Exchange 2003 SP2 server. For additional information about whether you have the minimum requirements, please refer to the pre-requisite stated in the next section of this guide.
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I think it would be fair to credit the popularization of the term ‘Push Mail’ to Research in Motion’s (RIM) ubiquitous BlackBerry device. For those living in a cave in Afghanistan for the last few years, push mail refers to the automatic receipt of Emails – implicitly assumed to be a handheld device, as […]