>>>>>My current question is on another branch of this thread, and has to do with sending email. If you know of a solution, I'd be glad to hear it. Otherwise, I'll run the update when I get home and see what happens.
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>>>>What ISP are you using for your email?
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>>>I am using Earthlink, and I have an old netcom address "ix.netcom.com". I succeeded in sending one email, so I imagine that the automatic setup worked. The send/receive process reports no errors, unless I try it where the signal is weak. The error message saying "invalid recipients" appears in my inbox.
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>>Make sure your settings are correct & that you dont have anything sitting in the outbox, and try typing in another email address to send it too. I suppose this is something that might be in the update - I never had to do the update because the 6600's already have it.
>>Also, make sure that it's POP3 that you're trying to do..its a bit tricky ... you have to goto the top where is says 'inbox' and exand all that out..make sure its not trying a picture mail or somethin....
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>The version of the download firmware was the same as what I had, but I upgraded it anyway. Of course, it wiped my account, so I created a new one. This time, unlike last time, it couldn't get the mail server settings automatically. I put the values in from what I have on the desktop. When I tried to send/receive, it said the server name was wrong. I looked on support at earthlink.net, and it gave a slightly different outgoing mail server name. I changed it accordingly. It gave me some error message about the certificate, and asked me if it should continue anyway, and I did. I successfully received the test message I sent myself from the desktop.
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>Then I tried to write a message. I got the same "invalid recipients" as before. After trying one or two ways to get it sent, I somehow made it so it won't send. I have a group of mail folders named "netcom" (the name of my account on the pocketPC) and other folders called "Outlook E-Mail" containing the folders I have on my desktop outlook. When I select "netcom" and write a message, it puts it in the "Outlook E-Mail" outbox. Then the "send/receive" menu item is disabled.
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>So I'm going backwards. I suppose I should now download the instructions for pocket outlook which I saw somewhere (I can't remember where).

This morning I was got back to where I was, where I would send a message and it would tell me I had invalid addresses. I looked at the Pocket Outlook instructions on pocketpc.com and it mentioned the address verification through LDAP and the errors it can produce. I removed the account from "verify names..." under tools-options-address, leaving that box blank. I also did a soft-reset, just in case. I'm getting the same result - "invalid addresses".