Is anyone else out there totally frustrated with the mobile e-mail options out there?
Blackberry is just a terrible solution. It only supports proprietary e-mail systems! How hard would it be for Blackberry Enterprise Server to support IMAP?? Not very. I understand that IMAP, especially over SSL, may be too "chatty" for most bandwidth-conservative wireless providers. It would be nice if there were some FOSS (reverse-engineered?) implementation of the Blackberry Server that would plug into Postfix or my Maildir and perform the essential "PUSH" and synchronization functions. Such a program would be hopelessly redundant and would only be confirming to the loathed phone companies' desire for a substandard, incompatible system. I could get a Palm and use IMAP over SSL, but the only GSM model is pretty old and Palm OS is a dying platform. Also, the companies charge you more than double than a Blackberry plan for a data plan that will support an IMAP+SSL setup. I have hope for the Access Linux Platform, especially since Orange in the UK has now thrown their weight behind it. But that will take years to mature. It is shocking that mobile e-mail is in such a primative, non-standards-compliant state. I really wish Hcoop could also securely serve my mobile e-mail. Frank _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
