Thanks, Sionnach.
On Jun 16, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Sionnach Aisling wrote:
The main piece we had trouble with was VersaMail.
Is that different than the built-in "Mail" application? So far at
least, I have no plans to use the Treo for email. If I did, I'd have
to get a separate email address that only a few people have.
Otherwise, I'd get inundated with hundreds of email a day (I'm on
quite a few lists).
My wife wanted to be able to send/recieve email.
Well, VersaMail comes wiht your Palm... sortof.
Verizon recompiled Palm's install CD to make it "their
own" and in doing so left out a LOT of the
functionality for Macs. In fact, their own
instruction manual (Verizon's) says Mac users will
have to install VersaMail from the CD... But try to
do that from a Mac... you can't. They didn't
incorporate a Mac installer. I had to take my wifes
Treo 650 upstairs, hook it up to my PC, pop the disk
in and install VersaMail from there. After that, it
would sync and work fine from her iBook.
I don't have a PC, but I do have Virtual PC 6.x. I guess if I decide
to try VersaMail, I could see if I could install that way.
I was able to get mail to recieve, but not send.
After quickly looking at the unit, I determined it was
becasue she was sending over verizon's network, so our
home ISPs SMTP Server setting wasn't working.
Solution... I needed a SMTP server from Verizon.
Called Verizon support... first mistake, my wife
tells the lady she's running this on a Mac. Tech
tells her this isn't supported on a Mac. (Verizon Doc
says otherwise). She tried to explain that her
problem was irrelevant to whateer operating system it
was running on, but tech wasn't getting it... She
finally gave me the phone in disgust.
I finally determined that not only did the tech not
know mac, they didn't know the Treo 650 either... only
the 600 (which runs a different version of Versamail
with far less features.) After holding the techs hand
and leading her through all the settings in Versamail
(wait, isn;t that her job??) She finally gives me the
SMTP server name I need. Of course... she gave it too
me wrong. I had to figure that out for myself. But
all in all, i got it working.
I guess I may come to you if I get to the point where I need the SMTP
server. Is the default email address [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Since the, my wife LOVES her Treo650. I'm even
impressed with it, although I'm a graffiti guy and the
650 doesn't allow graffiti... just input from the
mini-keyboard, which my fat fingers don't like :-)
I've almost given up on thumb typing, even though the 650 supposedly
has the sensitivity to distinguish between a fully pressed key and an
accidentally pressed one. I do better holding the Treo in one hand
and typing with the index finger of the other. I also understand that
there's a third-party handwriting recognition program that's better
than Graffitti (in that it lets you train it rather than requiring
you to use a pre-determined method.
I'll give the keyboard some more time before I try that out though.
It's only been a couple of days.
Thanks.
I'll reply to you back channel about the Kyocera.
Regards,
Harry Corsover
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