Sorry, I meant to send this to "Misc" On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 15:58 -0700, Franklin Gordon Bynum wrote: > 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
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