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 When
out on an expedition, e-mails
will probably be your main communication with the
outside world.
Using a slow internet connection, you really don't want to receive that
huge 1 meg pic of your buddy's cute puppy.
Or view your own replies below in that never-ending string e-mail;
loading on a poor connection and clogging your mailbox
Employ a guard at the gate: Find him in "message rules"
in the tools menu in Outlook Express.
Click the mail option. You can now control the size of incoming messages,
do forwarding or have automated replies and other handy options
when out on an expedition.
One example is to reject messages larger than
20 k, and instead send an automated reply stating: "I'm currently on Mount Everest, and can not
receive messages larger than 20 k, please resize your message and choose
the plain text option in the format menu".
Consider using a separate e-mail address for communication with VIPs
like your mother, webmaster, weather service and sponsors. The weather
forecasts from AdventureWeather are always presented as text and not html. You also have
the choice to get a weather map attached or to reject it.
In addition, you should uncheck the "send and receive messages at
startup" and also the "check for new message every..." boxes. You'll
find them in the tools menu and options.
Sending e-mail
Minimize
the size of outgoing messages by choosing "plain text" in tools - options - send.
Plain text will slash almost half the size of your message, compared to "rich
text" (html). Upon replying, always delete the previous message.
E-mail and PDA
Receiving and sending mails over PDAs (Pocket-PC) works about the same
way as with
laptops.
One important note however: Contrary to a laptop, the iPAQ will not remove e-mails from the mail-server.
Over time the iPAQ must search an increasing number of e-mails to
determine which you have received already and which is new. The solution
is to ask someone home to download your mails
to a PC once in a while. They can choose a duration that the downloaded e-mails
will be saved in the mail-client.
It is advisable to use a "secret" expedition e-mail account for the
PDA. Dedicated expedition e-mail accounts are included with the
CONTACT software.
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