- Email address: Your Oxford Email address
- Domain: Type in tobedeleted. (Connection to the oxford nexus does not require you to enter domain information, however unfortunatly Mail for Exchange demands that you enter one at this stage).
- Username: Your Oxford Username (also known as the Oxford single sign on username (i.e abcd1234)
- Password: Your Oxford password
It will put you into the mail Connection options page. On this page you will need to enter in the following information:
- Exchange server: nexus.ox.ac.uk
- Secure connection : Yes
- Access point: Your standard way of connecting to the internet
- Sync, while roaming: If you want your phone to work as normal with picking up email when in another country you can select then you need this set to Yes. Please be aware that this connection uses a sizable amount of a data and therefore it is highly recommended that you speak to your network operator prior to your trip to ensure that both the connection will work and any additional charges that you may incur.
- Use default port: Yes
On this page, you do not need to change the username and password as you have already set them, however as stated before, you must delete the 'tobedeleted' that you entered in the domain field. You do this by selecting Domain, then pressing the delete key on your phone until the text has disappeared, then pressing OK.
It should then appear as in the 2nd screen shot to your right.
Using your scroll button, press right once to change the menu to "Sync. Schedule".
- MfE works on the basis of peak and off-peak schedules. The standard usage would be Peak for the working day, and Off-peak for other times, but this can be changed as you wish. The important point in this section is that 'Always on' will not work until push email is implemented. Therefore, I would recommend setting the Peak Schedule to 15 minutes.
- Peak days: You can set up certain days as workdays and these can be changed in here:
- In case of conflict: Set this as server wins. In short, there is always a change that a synchronization may go wrong and the data may be different on your phone to what it actually on Nexus. Mail for Exchange monitors this, and if it detects a discrepancy then it will ignore the data on the phone and restore it back to the information that is on Nexus to avoid any potential loss of data from the server.
Again using your scroll button, press right and this will move you across to Calendar.
- Synchronize Calendar: If you want your Calendar to be the same on your phone as it is on Nexus, then select Yes.
- Sync calendar back: How far you want your Calendar to go back on your phone. The default is two weeks, so if you had an item in either your phone or nexus calendar that was three weeks old, it would not be moved over.
- Initial sync: You can choose to either keep the items on the phone or delete them and start afresh with nexus. For most users, you will want to keep the items on the phone.
Again using your scroll button, press right and this will move you across to Tasks
- Synchronize tasks: Select Yes if you want to Synchronize your tasks with your handset
- Sync completed tasks: If tasks are completed, you can select here if you want them to be synchronized between the handsets (i.e if you select no, only outstanding tasks will be sync'ed)
- Initial sync: As with calender, you can choose to either keep or delete the items on the phone when you do the first sync.
- You can use to sync your contacts between your phone and nexus. This a different service to the Global address book however. If you want to have these sync'ed then then press Yes.
- Initial sync: If you do choose to sync your contacts, You'll almost certainly want to keep your contacts on your phone so select Keep items on phone, otherwise during the initial sync it will delete the contacts of your phone.
For the final time using your scroll button press right and this will move you onto Email.
- Synchronize email: Yes
- Email address: Your oxford email address (should already be in there)
- Show new mail pop up: If you want to be notified when you have new mail on your home screen, select Yes.
- Use Signature/Signature: You can select to use a signature for email messages here and whether to enable it or not.
- When sending mail: Select Send at next sync only. For the same reasons as instant delivery, this will not work until push email is enabled.
- Sync messages back: The time length that you want your emails to stay on the phone. The default is three days, but you can increase this, or even have it set to permanently leave the messages on the phone.
