iPhone Contacts Missing 'Type Of Email Field'

[a.manic]

Hi

A contact in Exchange/Outlook can have 3 email fields; Email1, Email2 & Email3.

I can choose to sync my Mail2Web Exchange contacts in two ways;
1 - over the air (i.e. configure the iPhone to sync Exchange Contacts) or
2 - via iTunes iPhone Sync (which then takes them from the contacts stored in the cached exchange mode in Outlook).

My problem...

If I sync my contacts using method 2 everything seems to work okay, in so far that when editing/creating an email address of a contact on the iphone I also get the opportunity to classify it as Home, Work or Other. This is ideal as I can clearly see on the iphone what email is what when a contact has multiple email addresses. It seems that on syncing with iTunes, Work becomes Email1, Home becomes Email2 and Other becomes Email3.

However, if I sync my contacts over the air using method 1 I do not get the option when editing or creating a contact to classify email addresses. If a contact has 3 emails addresses, whereas above their type is shown, with exchange no type is shown... just the 3 email addresses so it becomes impossible to know what is what.

Is this an issue with how ActiveSync is configured. Can it be resolved?

Ade

[jeremya]

It looks to me like this may be how Exchange handles Email in contacts as entering them in Outlook has the same limitation. I cannot see a way to specify otherwise presently.

[smiley22]

Unfortunately, I think Jeremy's right on this one.

[FieldODreams]

Anyone know if the updates to either Outlook or Exchange will get rid of this limitation?