User Guide

Section 3B: Using Email 137

Using Email

䡲 Unread messages downloads only unread mail to your device (IMAP accounts only).

If you don’t choose this option and you select Get, all your messages on your

provider’s mail server are downloaded to your Inbox, including messages you have

already read.

䡲 Mail from last gets messages sent within the number of days you specify

(default is 3).

䡲 Download attachments allows files attached to email to be automatically

downloaded to your device. Attachments that exceed the maximum message size

cannot be downloaded.

䡲 Maximum message size sets the maximum size limit, in kilobytes (KB), for how

much of an incoming email message is downloaded. The maximum size of an

incoming message is 5KB by default (that is, the first 5KB of all incoming email

messages is downloaded), but you can enter any size up to 2,048KB

(approximately 2 megabytes, or 2MB), including attachments.

䡲 Message Format sets the format in which you retrieve messages. If you choose

HTML, any messages sent in HTML format appear with basic HTML formatting

intact. Other messages appear as plain text. If you choose Text, all messages

appear as plain text, regardless of the format in which they were sent.

䡲 Select OK.

Note

The maximum message size that you can retrieve is 60KB for the body text

and approximately 5MB of total data for any attachments. To view a

message whose total size is greater than the maximum message size you

select but is less than 5MB, you need to select