I have several distribution lists in Outlook 2K on my
desktop, but they do not show up in Contacts on my
HP1910. This makes it difficult to compose email on the
go and have it send properly to a group of people (must
enter each from the contact list by hand). Any
suggestions, or am I just out of luck?

Thanks,
Bob.

In article <0a5001c2ce0d$36a2c990$d7f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA14>,
Bob <espinoza@comcast.net> wrote:
>I have several distribution lists in Outlook 2K on my
>desktop, but they do not show up in Contacts on my
>HP1910. This makes it difficult to compose email on the
>go and have it send properly to a group of people (must
>enter each from the contact list by hand). Any
>suggestions, or am I just out of luck?

Is your desktop part of a workplace LAN, or is it a standalone machine at
home? If you're in a corporate environment and connect to an Exchange
server to see your distribution lists, then they won't be replicated to
your Pocket PC. In order to replicate distribution lists and other Global
Address List items to Pocket Outlook, you need to have your Exchange
administrator install Mobile Information Server. Or so I'm informed.

If your distribution lists are instead stored in a Personal Address Book
or some other form of offline storage, then you'll need to duplicate these
entries into your desktop Contacts before they'll replicate into Pocket
Outlook. In fact, any e-mail recipient which isn't an SMTP address (like a
distribution list or a fax number or whathaveyou) won't be properly
resolved by Pocket Outlook. It's a limitation of the application.

With any luck, Microsoft is polling users and collecting feedback about
the limitations of Pocket Outlook. My hope is that there's an application
with a larger featureset and more integration into corporate e-mail
environments. The ability to synchronize directory items from Exchange,
Lotus, and Oracle mail db's wouldn't hurt either.

-KKC, who has users at his workplace who aren't smart enough to use their
Pocket PC's to compose mail. They're all too busy playing Backgammon. :)
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