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Smartphones & District 21 Email

20.August.2008 20:33 Filed in: Tech Tips
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Did you get a smartphone this summer? If so, you may be wondering how you can access your District 21 email account on your smartphone. Unfortunately, due to the configuration of our firewall and the CommuniGate email server, you can only access it outside of School District 21 using webmail via a web browser, such as Firefox, Safari, Flock, or Internet Explorer. This means that you have to see if your smartphone’s web browser (IE mobile on a Windows Mobile phone or Safari on an iPhone) will support CommuniGate.

At the same time, please be aware that over the next year and a half, we will be migrating all of District 21’s employees to our new e-mail, calendar, and contacts server--which uses Microsoft’s Exchange server solution. As a matter of fact, by the end of the first week of the 2008-2009 school year, there will already be more than 6 dozen District 21 employees who have begun using the Exchange server. The bulk of the staff members in School District 21 will be moved to the Exchange server during the first half of the 2008-2009 school year. At that time, if your phone supports Exchange, you will be able to access your e-mail via your own smartphone, though we will not be able to actively support you personal smartphones.

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