Hi all, I want to express my deep gratitude for all the advice in this unbelievable thread!
All in all, I must have spent some two whole days trying to get my Nokia 301 to sync contacts and calender with the MS-Outlook on my notebook. The trouble started when the Nokia PC Suite I downloaded from Nokia stated my phone was 'not supported'(!) Since then,
I must have read hundreds of postings, but nothing solved the issue. E.g. I downloaded MobilEdit since their website advertises that the program can do what I need, only to discover the program can sync contacts only. Reading in the specs the Nokia 301 supports
MLsync, I even went so far as to install a Funambol server on my home network, but that gave me no joy either: when trying to enter the specifications the phone kept telling me "ask your provider for the specifications".
Just when I was about to give up and buy an android smartphone which I do neither want nor need, I discovered this thread and the advice to download an older version of Nokia PC Suite, which I duly did (version 3.4.49 from
http://nokia-pc-suite.software.informer.com/download/) and lo and behold: it worked! The program even found my phone and my outlook without any intervention and proposed to sync them.
In future, I might try the 'microsoft Exchange ActiveSync' as proposed by Abi99, but I need a data-connection for that and so far the apps using a data-connection did not impress me..
Needless to say I fully agree with those on this forum complaining about support; it's a disgrace the way Microsoft managed to screw up even this. But again, lots of thanks for the advice in this thread!