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iPhone email query

  • 13-01-2010 12:59pm
    #1
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭


    Okay, my company are offering some of us the use of either a Blackberry or iPhone.

    My first choice is the iPhone but I'm unsure as there seem to be a lot of problems with email.

    At work, we use Outlook and when we are abroad, we access our email using our Outlook webmail from our web browser.

    Now when I'm accessing webmail from any computer around the world, I can access our 'public folders' a set of shared folders that anyone in our company can access. These public folders is essentially our 'live' archive of past emails relating to ongoing projects.

    Will I still be able to access these folders using the iPhone?


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  • #2
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    One more question:

    I've read that the iPhone can't handle zipped attachments!! Is there any way around this? Is there an app available that will unzip attachments?


  • #3
    Type 17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    From looking around the web, it seems that users having issues with OWA over an iPhone because of the way their company has the OWA services set up, or because their version that they are using is too old or unpatched.

    Does anyone in your company already use an iPhone with OWA?


  • #4
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    Type 17 wrote: »
    From looking around the web, it seems that users having issues with OWA over an iPhone because of the way their company has the OWA services set up, or because their version that they are using is too old or unpatched.

    Does anyone in your company already use an iPhone with OWA?

    Nobody currently uses an iPhone in the company but I can tell you that our entire email server, firmware and software was upgraded last year. Also, a lot of the OWA issues I'm seeing online seem to be from 2007 and related to older iPhones.

    Is this still an issue? The new iPhone comes integrated with Microsoft exchange access so I'd assume that this also covers OWA doesn't it?


  • #5
    Type 17
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    The answer to the question of whether you should take a BB or an iPhone is down to the attitude of your IT department/supplier - if you get an iPhone, and OWA isn't working, will you get the help you need, or will you be fobbed off with excuses?

    No news on the zip file issue from the web - what attachments do you need to view and how big are they?


  • #6
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    Type 17 wrote: »
    The answer to the question of whether you should take a BB or an iPhone is down to the attitude of your IT department/supplier - if you get an iPhone, and OWA isn't working, will you get the help you need, or will you be fobbed off with excuses?
    The IT thing isn't a problem thankfully. If I say jump he doesn't just say 'how high?' he asks 'what colour?' (Terry Pratchett fans may get that one) :) Seriously, the IT guy won't be a problem :)
    No news on the zip file issue from the web - what attachments do you need to view and how big are they?
    It all depends, sometimes it's a 10MB PPT file, other times there might be 4 PDF files and three Word documents, another time it might be a single jpg or xls file.


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  • #7
    Type 17
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    r3nu4l wrote: »
    The IT thing isn't a problem thankfully. If I say jump he doesn't just say 'how high?' he asks 'what colour?' (Terry Pratchett fans may get that one) :) Seriously, the IT guy won't be a problem :)


    It all depends, sometimes it's a 10MB PPT file, other times there might be 4 PDF files and three Word documents, another time it might be a single jpg or xls file.

    Despite the good news on the IT side, I'd be inclined to direct you away from the iPhone (even though I have one, and think it's a great device). The BB will be better for viewing business docs like the ones you mention (I used to work in O2, and used (and trained corporates in the use of) BB's since 2001).

    I'm now a photographer, and I don't deal in attachments much (I use a laptop & ftp when required), so the iPhone suits (actually, its photo gallery syncs with project folders in Aperture, so it's great for showing photos to others).


  • #8
    deep1
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    r3nu4l wrote: »

    It all depends, sometimes it's a 10MB PPT file, other times there might be 4 PDF files and three Word documents, another time it might be a single jpg or xls file.

    while zip might be a problem, but you can install quickoffice and transfer files from your pc to iphone manually, it basically creates a spare drive in your pc and then you just drag and drop files, but keep in mind 10mb file might take a minute or 2 transferring.


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