Nokia 3660 - Viewing e-mail attachments

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Viewing e-mail attachments

• Open a message that has the attachment indicator

and select

Options

Attachments

to open the Attachments view. In the Attachments view, you can retrieve,

open, or save attachments. You can also send attachments via infrared or Bluetooth.

Important: E-mail attachments may contain viruses or otherwise be harmful to

your phone or PC. Do not open any attachment if you are not sure of the
trustworthiness of the sender. For more information, see

‘Certif. management’

, p.

41

.

Tip! To save

memory, you can remove
attachments from an e-
mail while retaining them
on the e-mail server.
Select

Options

Delete

in

the Attachments view.

Retrieving attachments to the phone
• If the attachment has a dimmed indicator, it has not been retrieved to the phone. To

retrieve the attachment, scroll to it and select

Options

Retrieve

.

Note: If your mailbox uses the IMAP 4 protocol, you can decide whether to

retrieve e-mail headings only, messages only, or messages and attachments.
With the POP3 protocol, the options are e-mail headings only or messages and
attachments. For further information, see p.

96

.

Opening an attachment
1
In the Attachments view, scroll to an attachment and press

to open it.

Tip! Supported

image formats are listed
on p.

59

. To see a list of

other file formats
supported by the Nokia
3660, go and see the
product information at
www.nokia.com.

If you are online, the attachment is retrieved directly from the server and opened

in the corresponding application.

If you are offline, the phone asks if you want to retrieve the attachment to the

phone. If you answer

Yes

, a connection to the remote mailbox is started.

2 Press

Back

to return to the e-mail viewer.

Saving attachments separately

To save an attachment, select

Options

Save

in the Attachments view. The attachment

is saved in the corresponding application. For example, sounds can be saved in Recorder
and text files (.TXT) in Notes.

Note: Attachments like images can be saved on the memory card, if one is used.

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