HTC Desire - Work Email via vpn is this the best setup

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Dawg

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#77044 10-Feb-2011 08:08

Morning all,

I have a stock standard HTC Desire and I have been resisting the urge to receive my work emails on it - Must have a life excuse. Now I want that functionality.

My IT guy has suggested I use a VPN connection for my work email?

Does anyone have any experience with this? Is the stock standard android/HTC vpn client sufficent or is there something better out there?

I currently receive all my personal via gmail, how will the vpn affect that?

Open to all sugestions,

Cheers Shane

Zeon

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#437604 10-Feb-2011 08:21

Lol VPN for email? Do you know what kind of email server you are using? If its Echange or anything with activesync then you need to ask your work IT guy to enable exchange on a public IP/FQDN and you can then set it up using "Microsoft Activesync" in the accounts and sync menu.

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kiwitrc

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#437616 10-Feb-2011 09:02

We just connect directly to our email server (HTC Desire) and it works fine. Any reason you have to go through a VPN?

Dawg

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#437624 10-Feb-2011 09:20

Not sure why with the VPN - But that is what he had to do with the Bosses iPads.

Thats why I thought I should ask the question here.

Zeon

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#437648 10-Feb-2011 09:56

Dawg: Not sure why with the VPN - But that is what he had to do with the Bosses iPads.

Thats why I thought I should ask the question here.

Sounds like you have a pretty poor setup if your mail server can't allow external internet connections. Check with your IT guy as to what server your using and whether its on or off site. I suspect you;'ll have something on-site with a standard DSL internet connection that hasn't had ports forwarded properly for internet access.

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