MailWave - new promising e-mail client for PalmOS

Alexander Turcic · 10-31-2004, 07:20 PM

MailWave provides wireless access to IMAP4 and POP3 enabled servers. Advanced features such as Inbox synchronization, and calendar and task viewing provide the mobile worker with valuable information while on the road.

The e-mail client supports multiple networks, email servers, and wireless devices providing a very flexible wireless email solution. MailWave is a powerful wireless email access solution with advanced features such as push style message delivery, stylus free operation, and attachment downloading. Deploy MailWave to a single user or the entire enterprise quickly and securely using over the air activation.

Price: $9.95/month (that doesn't come cheap

).

For more info and download instruction read at mytreo.net or visit the author's homepage.

hacker · 11-01-2004, 09:49 AM

Why can't anyone just get it right?! I must have personally tried at least a dozen mail applications for the Palm, including the higher-end (read: expensive) ones like Snappermail, iambic Mail and others... and none of them can get it right. Now MailWave wants you to use their ASP model for $9.95/month? No.

What is so difficult about providing proper POP3 and IMAP with SSL, and giving the user the ability to change their fonts to something smaller than the default PalmOS fonts, and adding some rotation and other nice features (syncronize folders for imap, send before pop for POP3). All of these protocols are openly documented, and adding the fonts and rotation isn't magical either.

Depressing. Simply depressing.

TadW · 11-01-2004, 12:23 PM

You're right hacker!

This problem goes even farther. Take a look at the PC: you have a gigantic open-source community producing quality applications that can easily compete with commercial products. Now take a look at PalmOS: Pluckr is probably the most famous open-source product for PalmOS. But is there beside Plucker? Perhaps one or two other apps, but the percentage is very low. Why? For the same reason why there is relatively little open-source available for Windows OS. PalmOS should be open-source; or even better, the next palmOne devices should run on a Linux derivate. Then, I am convinced, we would see much better applications than petty SnapperMail, iambic or whatever their names are, and for a price a lot cheaper!

10-31-2004, 07:20 PM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	MailWave - new promising e-mail client for PalmOS MailWave provides wireless access to IMAP4 and POP3 enabled servers. Advanced features such as Inbox synchronization, and calendar and task viewing provide the mobile worker with valuable information while on the road. The e-mail client supports multiple networks, email servers, and wireless devices providing a very flexible wireless email solution. MailWave is a powerful wireless email access solution with advanced features such as push style message delivery, stylus free operation, and attachment downloading. Deploy MailWave to a single user or the entire enterprise quickly and securely using over the air activation. Price: $9.95/month (that doesn't come cheap ). For more info and download instruction read at mytreo.net or visit the author's homepage.

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11-01-2004, 09:49 AM	#2
hacker Technology Mercenary Posts: 617 Karma: 2561 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: East Lyme, CT Device: Direct Neural Implant	Why can't anyone just get it right?! I must have personally tried at least a dozen mail applications for the Palm, including the higher-end (read: expensive) ones like Snappermail, iambic Mail and others... and none of them can get it right. Now MailWave wants you to use their ASP model for $9.95/month? No. What is so difficult about providing proper POP3 and IMAP with SSL, and giving the user the ability to change their fonts to something smaller than the default PalmOS fonts, and adding some rotation and other nice features (syncronize folders for imap, send before pop for POP3). All of these protocols are openly documented, and adding the fonts and rotation isn't magical either. Depressing. Simply depressing.

11-01-2004, 12:23 PM	#3
TadW Uebermensch Posts: 2,583 Karma: 1094606 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Italy Device: Kindle	You're right hacker! This problem goes even farther. Take a look at the PC: you have a gigantic open-source community producing quality applications that can easily compete with commercial products. Now take a look at PalmOS: Pluckr is probably the most famous open-source product for PalmOS. But is there beside Plucker? Perhaps one or two other apps, but the percentage is very low. Why? For the same reason why there is relatively little open-source available for Windows OS. PalmOS should be open-source; or even better, the next palmOne devices should run on a Linux derivate. Then, I am convinced, we would see much better applications than petty SnapperMail, iambic or whatever their names are, and for a price a lot cheaper!

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