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The following features are new in Windows Mobile 6. Additional software requirements are listed with each feature. If there are any additional hardware requirements, those requirements are also listed.
Mobile Messaging Features | Description |
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E-mail Setup User Experience |
The Messaging Application and the ActiveSync Framework have been enhanced to support:
This feature improves the end user's ActiveSync/Exchange Server e-mail setup experience. Requires Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. |
Exchange Server Search for E-mail |
Search for Exchange Server e-mail enables Windows Mobile users to search their Microsoft Exchange mailbox for items that match specified criteria. The search results are downloaded and displayed in a Search Results folder. Having the ability to search for any e-mail message in the user’s Exchange Server store is a feature that keeps users from being hampered by a mobile device’s limited storage space. Users can access messages in the Exchange Server message store without having to return to their desktop. Requires Exchange Server 2007. |
Fetch Mail |
The Fetch Mail feature is a single-item e-mail messaging operation that gives the user the ability to download a single e-mail message in its entirety, including inline images and attachments, instead of having to invoke a full Send/Receive. It increases the speed and efficiency with which the end user can triage e-mail and economizes data usage by limiting a download to just the content that the user wants. When the Fetch completes, the rest of the message is filled in, without leaving the read form and without changing the user's scrolling position within the e-mail message. The Fetch Mail feature is available in both the read form and the list view. Requires Exchange Server 2007. |
HTML Support in E-mail |
HTML e-mail support is an enhancement to the Messaging Application (Inbox, tmail.exe), that allows end users to receive, view, compose, and send e-mail in HTML format.
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Online Global Address Book |
Requires Exchange Server 2007. |
Forms Improvements |
The usability of the Messaging Application's Compose and Read forms has been enhanced. |
Messaging Outlook Flags |
Requires Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. |
SharePoint Document Attachment |
SharePoint Document Attachment gives mobile users the ability to open links that are embedded in HTML e-mail to documents that are stored on SharePoint servers. This can be used as an alternative to attaching documents to e-mail messages, which is costly in terms of bandwidth and storage. In addition, this approach ensures that the recipient receives the most recent version of a document. Generally, mobile users are unable to access documents from outside an enterprise firewall, but this problem is solved by using Exchange Server as a proxy or redirector for the document. This approach allows HTML e-mail to contain links to SharePoint documents just like standard attachments. Provides read-only access to items that are stored both on a SharePoint site and in Universal Naming Convention (UNC) shares. Requires Exchange Server 2007. |
Smart Filter in Messaging |
Smart Filter in Messaging limits the number of e-mail messages that are displayed in the Messaging Application's list view to only those that match a set of user-defined conditions. This gives users an easy way to find the exact messages that they want, without having to scan through a lengthy list of messages. Users will find this feature useful because only a small number of messages can be shown on the list view screen due to its small size. This gives users a simpler, more powerful, and familiar method for quickly accessing the messages they are looking for. Being able to quickly filter the Messaging list view will help users triage and manage their messages. Having a filtering experience that is consistent with the experience in Contacts helps discoverability in both applications. |
Improved Hardware Functionality |
Improved Hardware Functionality enhances the end user's experience of the Messaging Application (Inbox) by enhancing keyboard and keypad support. The improvements include:
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Information Rights Management E-mail Messages |
The Messaging Application now supports receiving, replying to, forwarding, and composing of Information Rights Management (IRM)-protected mail. Organizations that take advantage of IRM can improve the mobile messaging experience for their users. Without the ability to work fully with IRM e-mail, organizations that use IRM extensively have a less satisfactory mobile messaging experience. IRM is a feature that is unique to Windows Mobile, and any competitive advantage it brings to the platform will be lost if users cannot use the feature fully. The feature supports the following:
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