Chapter 6 Page 149The All setting does not mean that all information included in eache-mail item downloads to your handheld. Truncation settings(explained in a following section) for long e-mail items still apply.Also, Mail never downloads any attachments to your handheld.The e-mail item and any text information appear, but theattachment is left in your desktop E-Mail application.5. If you selected All, Send only, or Unread, tap OK. If you selectedFilter, continue to the next section.Creating special filtersYou can create special filters to control the type of e-mail items thatdownload to your handheld during synchronization. Special filterswork on the premise of ignoring or retrieving items that containspecific information in their header fields.To create a special filter, you must decide whether you want to ignoreor retrieve certain e-mail items. Then, based on that decision, youmust tell your handheld what it needs to look for in the To:, From:, andSubj: fields to single out those e-mail items.Filter During synchronization, all e-mail items in yourhandheld Outbox are sent to your desktop E-Mailapplication, and items in your desktop E-MailInbox that meet specific criteria download to yourhandheld. When you select the Filter setting, theHotSync Options dialog box opens and displaysadditional filter settings. See “Creating specialfilters” later in this chapter.Unread During synchronization, only unread e-mailitems download to your handheld from yourdesktop E-Mail Inbox, and all items in yourhandheld Outbox are sent to your desktop E-Mailapplication.
