Comments on: The perfect PDA + phone http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2005%2F09%2F15%2Fthe-perfect-pda-phone%2F%23comment-&seed_title=The+perfect+PDA+%2B+phone bioneural.net is for stuff worth sharing: commentary by Bruce McKenzie. Major topics covered are gadgets, informatics, Internet, Mac, mobile, musings, New Zealand, photography, Project Koru, quicklinks, rant, rave, travel and Windows Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:50:37 +0000 By: Seb Payne http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2005%2F09%2F15%2Fthe-perfect-pda-phone%2F%23comment-431&seed_title=The+perfect+PDA+%2B+phone#comment-431 Seb Payne Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:46:39 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2005/09/15/the-perfect-pda-phone/#comment-431 I am using a great app called ChatterMail (from www.chattermail.com) which is a brilliant push-email application that works with most IMAP servers. With my Gmail account, I get an email about 16 seconds after it has been sent from anywhere. For Gmail, I use the recommended instructions of setitng all emails to be pushed to a fastmail.fm mailbox for use on my Treo 600. It is first class! I am using a great app called ChatterMail (from http://www.chattermail.com) which is a brilliant push-email application that works with most IMAP servers. With my Gmail account, I get an email about 16 seconds after it has been sent from anywhere. For Gmail, I use the recommended instructions of setitng all emails to be pushed to a fastmail.fm mailbox for use on my Treo 600. It is first class!

]]> By: Lynn http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2005%2F09%2F15%2Fthe-perfect-pda-phone%2F%23comment-94&seed_title=The+perfect+PDA+%2B+phone#comment-94 Lynn Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2005/09/15/the-perfect-pda-phone/#comment-94 Bruce, You know I'm not a tech person, so excuse the basic questions. What's the best way to access email remotely on a T3? We have server mail that I would like to be able to have *pushed* to the T3, but am not sure how to best go about it. Any suggestions ? Bruce,

You know I'm not a tech person, so excuse the basic questions.

What's the best way to access email remotely on a T3? We have server mail that I would like to be able to have *pushed* to the T3, but am not sure how to best go about it.

Any suggestions ?

]]> By: Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2005%2F09%2F15%2Fthe-perfect-pda-phone%2F%23comment-95&seed_title=The+perfect+PDA+%2B+phone#comment-95 Bruce Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2005/09/15/the-perfect-pda-phone/#comment-95 The T3 comes with VersaMail 2.6 which may let you send/ receive e-mail from your usual account. Pair the T3 to a GPRS phone via Bluetooth and you have a dial-up mobile e-mail solution. You can set VersaMail to check for new messages according to a prescribed schedule (e.g. hourly) and have it notify you if it finds any. This assumes your T3 is always on i.e. sitting in a cradle! If you need to secure the connection to the server you are using to send mail (e.g. a Gmail account), VersaMail 2.6 won't do. You can install VersaMail 2.7 on your T3 as described <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/bruce.mckenzie/blog/C1146693724/E20050911185319/index.html">here</a>. I'm sorry I don't know much about push e-mail. As I understand it, to receive "push" messages (delivery as they are received) requires the IMAP server to support a specific protocol, the name of which I forget. Anyway, most don't (Apple's .Mac doesn't for sure). Client-side support for the Palm platform is available (e.g. Chattermail) but seems to be geared specifically towards Treo owners. I don't know of a push solution that lists compatibility with the T3. At a pinch you can use the Web Pro browser to access a webmail account, but this will likely be slow and have problems rendering almost any page. If a reply is urgent there's always the telephone ;-) The T3 comes with VersaMail 2.6 which may let you send/ receive e-mail from your usual account. Pair the T3 to a GPRS phone via Bluetooth and you have a dial-up mobile e-mail solution. You can set VersaMail to check for new messages according to a prescribed schedule (e.g. hourly) and have it notify you if it finds any. This assumes your T3 is always on i.e. sitting in a cradle!

If you need to secure the connection to the server you are using to send mail (e.g. a Gmail account), VersaMail 2.6 won't do. You can install VersaMail 2.7 on your T3 as described here.

I'm sorry I don't know much about push e-mail. As I understand it, to receive "push" messages (delivery as they are received) requires the IMAP server to support a specific protocol, the name of which I forget. Anyway, most don't (Apple's .Mac doesn't for sure). Client-side support for the Palm platform is available (e.g. Chattermail) but seems to be geared specifically towards Treo owners. I don't know of a push solution that lists compatibility with the T3.

At a pinch you can use the Web Pro browser to access a webmail account, but this will likely be slow and have problems rendering almost any page.

If a reply is urgent there's always the telephone ;-)

]]> By: Scott http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2005%2F09%2F15%2Fthe-perfect-pda-phone%2F%23comment-231&seed_title=The+perfect+PDA+%2B+phone#comment-231 Scott Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2005/09/15/the-perfect-pda-phone/#comment-231 I hope you meant 128MB of memory! :) I hope you meant 128MB of memory! :)

]]> By: Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2005%2F09%2F15%2Fthe-perfect-pda-phone%2F%23comment-232&seed_title=The+perfect+PDA+%2B+phone#comment-232 Bruce Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.bioneural.net/2005/09/15/the-perfect-pda-phone/#comment-232 Yeh, thanks for spotting that! Yeh, thanks for spotting that!

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