mail lets you manage the e-mail that you send and receive through the e-mail application on your desktop computer. you can read, reply to, compose, and delete e-mail on your organizer; but to send or receive e-mail, you must perform a hotsync. operation either directly or indirectly. direct methods include placing your organizer in the cradle attached to your computer, or using infrared communications. indirect methods include using a modem, or using network hotsync technology.

    the key to mail is that it truly synchronizes the mail in the inbox of your desktop e-mail application with the mail on your organizer. for example, if you delete e-mail items from mail, your next hotsync operation also deletes the e-mail items from your desktop e-mail application, so you never have to delete e-mail items twice. similarly, if you read an e-mail item on your organizer and leave it in your inbox, your next hotsync operation marks it as read in your desktop e-mail application.

    in mail, you can do the following:

    ■ view, delete, file, and reply to incoming mail.

    ■ create outgoing e-mail items and drafts of e-mail items.

    ■ create simple or complex filters, which allow you to decide the type of e-mail that your organizer retrieves from your desktop e-mail application.

    ■ use your organizer to send and retrieve e-mail items from your desktop e-mail application via the cradle or infrared communications.