Windows mobile & internet proxies

Nasty bug, only really causing me hassle with WM 6.1...

I've got two connections on my phone, internet and work. Internet has no proxies, and connects straight to the Orange orangeinternet apn. Easy.

My work connection uses a private APN, but doesn't need proxies. It sync email, calendar, contacts and tasks over-the-air. But, the phone is also synced with my PC, to sync files, and SplashID.

However, when I sync with the PC, it knows I sync OTA, and doesn't touch those conduits. But it decides to add my corporate proxy (which my laptop needs for internet) to the proxy of the work section; thus, after an activesync with the PC, the work connection has "connects to Internet" ticked, and also "uses proxy" ticked, and set to the laptop proxy.

The consequence is that the internet browser (pocket IE, or Opera) fails since it can't find a proxy.

Solution (and a bad one at that): untick proxy on the work connection after each PC sync... bah .

Windows Mobile 6, sync tasks over the air...

If you use your webmail server address for activesync (on a Windows Mobile 6 phone), it won't sync tasks.

You can use the 'proper' server address, which will - but, this means (at least I) need to set up the alternative private APN to connect to it. Since my current device is not 3G, it'll end up swapping APNs all the time, which is a pain (webmail can use the open internet connection).

Alternatively, get tasks synced via the PC / cable...

Outlook calendar events not syncing?

Some recurrent events don't sync to the mobile.

Check the recurrence on them; the default is to have 'no end date', which basically means it repeats for 100 years (until 2100). And it won't sync.

Add an end date, or a number of repeats, then it will sync ok.