GroupWise on Wireless Devices

The proliferation of wireless handheld devices has brought the power of the Internet to the palm of your hand. GroupWise has taken advantage of this handheld mobility by providing a WebAccess interface that lets you manage your GroupWise Mailbox and perform many of the most common GroupWise tasks from the convenience and portability of your handheld device.

This part of the chapter provides an overview of how to access your GroupWise Mailbox and perform basic messaging tasks using your personal digital assistant (PDA) and the special PDA version of WebAccess.

It is important that you understand the difference between accessing and synchronizing when talking about PDAs. GroupWise allows you access , meaning that if your PDA can open a Web browser and see Web pages, it can access your GroupWise information.

Synchronizing is a software-based means to copy the information in your GroupWise Mailbox to your PDA, where you can access it regardless of whether you are connected to the Internet. This is accomplished with third-party software tools. You can see some of those tools for many PDAs at www.novell.com/products/groupwise/ partners /#pda.