December 03, 2003

Email software for Palm OS

Posted by Chris

I just acquired a Handspring Treo 600, which is a rather nice bit of kit to have and certainly beats both my old Palm m100 and Nokia 8210 combination. I used to read email with those by using the infra-red connection between the two but once spam started reaching its current extent it just wasn’t worth the hassle. Now I’d like to use the Treo to read email from time to time but I need a decent IMAP-enabled mail client to take advantage of the server-side installation of SpamAssassin on my university mailserver. Any recommendations?

Posted on December 3, 2003 04:49 PM UTC
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Posted by Jimmy Doyle · December 3, 2003 06:00 PM

I’ve so far found only one PalmOS mail client that supports both IMAP and SIMAP with multiple account profiles: PaPi-Mail,

http://www.ses-soft.com/papi/PaPi-Mail/

The interface is a little unpolished, but it does the job.

Posted by Doctor Memory · December 3, 2003 06:15 PM

I’ve so far found only one PalmOS mail client that supports both IMAP and SIMAP with multiple account profiles: PaPi-Mail,

http://www.ses-soft.com/papi/PaPi-Mail/

The interface is a little unpolished, but it does the job.

Posted by Doctor Memory · December 3, 2003 06:16 PM

I just tried PaPi-Mail and it seems to work mostly ok, though it’s a little slow.

The bad news is that it doesn’t seem to handle the Treo keyboard properly, so you can’t for instance, move from message to message with the 5-way switch as far as I can tell.

Posted by EKR · December 3, 2003 07:32 PM

I just bought Papi Mail having tried the test version. It works fine!

Posted by Chris Bertram · December 24, 2003 10:35 AM
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