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Setting up a Palm Treo 650 for xMail

This document applies to Cingular and AT&T phones.

To get your 650 to work correctly, you will have to perform two upgrades for Versamail and Activesync to fully enable Direct PUSH support. See, here to purchase and install the first update. This software is $10. Then visit here to install the Direct Push software. This software costs $2.99.

Once you install the Direct Push update, look at your Treo and click on "EAS Update" in the main menu. This will finish the update process. After that, you're ready to set up xMail as per the below instructions!

1. On the Treo, open Email.
2. Go to Menu → Accounts → Account Setup.
3. Click New. When prompted, enter:
   • Account Name: xMail
   • Mail Service: Exchange Activesync
4. Click Next.
5. When prompted, enter your username as: adlocal\CNetID. Your password is your CNet Password.
6. Click Next.
7. When prompted, enter the following:
   • Email Address: cnetid@uchicago.edu
   • Mail Server xmail.uchicago.edu
8. Click Next.
9. Click Advanced and ensure that SSL is selected. If it is not, select it.
10. Click Next → Done.

At this point, you will get a message explaining that items on your device will be synced to the server and the first sync will remove duplicates so it may take longer than subsequent syncs. Click YES to begin synching.

Direct Push will be enabled automatically the first time that it connects to the server. If you wish to disable this or change the sync interval, see this page for instructions.

Last updated: 8/13/07