No..
Verizon charges 2 plans rates.. $29.99 and $44.99
The difference is $44.99 enables use of microsoft exchange support. I heard you can access exchange email through gmail. If thats the case there's no need to pay this extra charge from Verizon. My question was, is this possible to do through gmail.
Thanks
OK, Gotcha - I guess this somehow revolves around the use of "Active Sync" in the (HTC) Exchange e-mail client. Maybe someone here can chime in about manual sync with the HTC e-mail app - I'd be willing to bet that plenty of folks are using their handset as an Exchange client without "paying tribute" to Verizon.
The quote below comes from a
Verizon Wireless page:
5 When you use Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync or NotifyLink, or Intellisync’s Intellisync Mobile Suite, every time you receive an email or other update you may be charged for an incoming text message. To avoid text messaging charges, you can set up timed synchronization or manually initiate synchronization.
As far as Gmail goes, you can set it up to "pull mail" from foreign mail systems, but this uses POP3. Exchange servers
can be configured to allow this, but it is sort of rare to see an Exchange server set up this way to allow POP3 access. (POP3 works, but is a completely insecure protocol - most Exchange admins will not allow it).
If you can forward e-mail through Exchange, you could send it to your Gmail account.
Those are the only two scenarios for getting your Exchange mail to Gmail - neither PC-based Gmail nor Eris handset-based Gmail have any support for Exchange servers.
HTH
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[Edit] It occurs to me that if your Exchange server was actually configured to allow POP3 or IMAP access from the outside world
(doubtful), you wouldn't
need to use Gmail in that case - you could just set up the e-mail account on the Eris as a non-Exchange account using the HTC e-mail app.