Better Email Client? - 8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development

Hey Everyone,
Thanks for all the hard work in keeping this forum alive, it has been great fun updating my Hermes to the latest and greatest!
Now I pose a question. Is there an email client for the Hermes that is better than the stock one included in the WM6 Operating System? I use my Hermes to handle a lot of email per day and the email client built into the OS just doesn't seem robust enough to handle all the mail coming my way.
Anyone have similar complaints? Is there a solution out there?

You can try commercial FlexMail or freeware Qmail. Both are badass mail clients and both are far more featured than Pocket Outlook.

Here is a question -
Is there a way to have the hard button for email start Qmail instead of pocket outlook?

yes you can
rgreenpc said:
Here is a question -
Is there a way to have the hard button for email start Qmail instead of pocket outlook?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
just assign it accordingly like any other button

yes you can
rgreenpc said:
Here is a question -
Is there a way to have the hard button for email start Qmail instead of pocket outlook?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
just assign it accordingly like any other button

Do you find that Qmail is stable enough to use on a regular basis?
KarhU said:
You can try commercial FlexMail or freeware Qmail. Both are badass mail clients and both are far more featured than Pocket Outlook.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse

ackerchez said:
Do you find that Qmail is stable enough to use on a regular basis?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I do not use my device for e-mails, but from my references Qmail should be more stable than FlexMail (where the guy testing it lost his mail accounts config twice in several days).

Related

hotmail in wm6?

anyone know how to get hotmail in the mail app? such as pocketmsn.
kree said:
anyone know how to get hotmail in the mail app? such as pocketmsn.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You could use Windows Live! Mobile. Please read the Wiki and search the forums next time before asking such a repetitive question .
You can get it from here (it's in the .zip file)
Ive just installed it on my phone, it really is the dogs danglies, far better than that £10.99 pocket msn rubbish Microsoft sell.
I used mobile live to get hotmail BUT this causes the wake up problem for me even after I remove it. I now use a fresh rom with GETMAIL program. I use the getmail freeware on my home desktop and forward all hotmail recieved to a pop3 capable account which I can use the built in outlook to check. Until a new version of live comes out I do not recommend it.
TaurusBullba said:
You could use Windows Live! Mobile. Please read the Wiki and search the forums next time before asking such a repetitive question .
You can get it from here (it's in the .zip file)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thank you very much!
although not searching for wmxl, I did search for hotmail with just abig misunderstanding on my part with the results. I guess sometimes mobile versions don't quite look the same as when rendered on the desktop. Once again thak you very much.

EXCHANGE MAIL SERVICES - incl. push / aliases etc

hey guys,
I'm now offering exchange mailboxes to users (subscription based service). right now i see two, one by austindkelly in the wizard forum (he's disappeared for over a month and looks like he doens't offer his service any more) and one by denial in the kaiser section ($5/month). I thought I'd offer up a similar service starting with the hermes group (cheaper of course) with a few extra tidbits of joy...
- supports iphone exchange services, saves a heck of money over apple's mobileme service!
- outlook web access (with the advanced interface)
- 1gb quota
- both SSL as well as standard port options
- *IMAP access* - you don't even need outlook, syncs flawlessly with your phone.
- *MAPI* outlook access - hook up your outlook on your PC to sync with my service which in turn syncs with your phone. no plugging in ever needed!
- alias included (get your own email)
- changing your password through outlook web access (one-way non-reversible encryption).
I figured it's a bit of an overkill having my own exchange server that's serving a single account (i.e. mine). so why not open it up!
Price is $10 for 3 months, $19 for 6 months.
Please PM me if you're interested... Already have a number of beta testers who I've received only positive responses from so far. I'll probably set up your account within 12 hours (probably less).
And yes, will give you unused credit money back etc etc if you're unsatisfied for whatever reason. I'm really not in this for the money, it's more to utilize something I spent hours building up, plus to cover the costs of my internet / server hardware.
And, as usual, if you need any files hosted for xda-developers just let me know, i'm already hosting over 40 ROM images and serving 5-6gb/day in ROMs from the wiki!
cheers!
free accounts:
will provide 10 rotating free accounts at any given time for test purposes, will base it off of usage. so if you use the free account, i'll keep it up indefinitely, if not then account will be removed after 14 days and given to the next person in line.
Free accounts do not have MAPI access, have 50mb storage, have no aliases either.
Depending on utilization I may increase this 10 free account limit.
Chamelion, I will be pming you later in regards to two accounts, there are a couple things I need to research beforehand.
CUSTEL said:
Chamilion, I will be pming you later in regards to two accounts, there are a couple things I need to research beforehand.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
sure thing let me know if there's anything i can help answer with your research! granted, you probably know more about this than i do
what version of Exchange are you running. I am curious about recieving html e-mail.
betrayed said:
what version of Exchange are you running. I am curious about recieving html e-mail.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, that and can I point my domains mx record to you and use my personal .com address?
betrayed said:
what version of Exchange are you running. I am curious about recieving html e-mail.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
exchange 2003.
nvisi0n said:
Yes, that and can I point my domains mx record to you and use my personal .com address?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
much easier for both of us if you just forward your personal .com address e-mail to the e-mail address my server assigns you. if you have an alias, your replies will appear from your personal .com email, not from my server
for those who've PMed overnight (i'm in london time, 8:20am here now) i'll set up your accounts within the next few hours.
update: all accounts from last night are set up. see your credentials information in your PM boxes!
Case sensitive
Hi Chamelion !
Did you get my last PM regarding the change of username to make it lower case to avoir pb with the transfer of emails to gmail.com ?
Thx in advance,
Cédric
DR400 said:
Hi Chamelion !
Did you get my last PM regarding the change of username to make it lower case to avoir pb with the transfer of emails to gmail.com ?
Thx in advance,
Cédric
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hey cedric!
yep got the PMs, i've changed your username now to make it lowercase. give it a shot now!
hadn't replied yet as your PMs were at 12:30am and 3:20am my time; i'm an old man and needs his rest
chamelion said:
hey cedric!
yep got the PMs, i've changed your username now to make it lowercase. give it a shot now!
hadn't replied yet as your PMs were at 12:30am and 3:20am my time; i'm an old man and needs his rest
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi !
I can understand. No problem.
I'm 35 myself but my last daughter is only 2 weeks old ... that's why I'm still alive and kicking at 2.30 am (Paris Time).
Cheers for the account. I'm giving it a try and will report soon.
current users : please feel free to give feedback on this thread too! appreciate it via PM but it'd be nice for other users to get some 3rd party reviews of the service!
How to use?
Chamileon, how can I use?
W/O internet access through phone company?
With internet access through free wifi?
TIA
jjjjayd13
doesn't matter what kind of internet you have / what method you use. long as you can open a website, you can use this
chamelion said:
current users : please feel free to give feedback on this thread too! appreciate it via PM but it'd be nice for other users to get some 3rd party reviews of the service!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi everyone,
I have to acknowledge that the service provided by Chamelion is working flawlessly. I've been using it for a week now and did not encounter any trouble except encoding issues but apparently not from his side. Flexmail is getting crazy with encoding, but poutlook is working great.
For sure, give it a try (if not more) !
thanks Chamelion for the good experience.
Note also that Chamelion is very accessible and quick to respond.
appreciate the positive review DR400, thanks
I have also been using the service for a week, and both Web Access and poutlook are working great.
Great!
I just signed up for the exchange service with Azim and it is great. Not only is it working wonderfully, his customer service and response time has been great. You can't beat what he offers with a stick!
Sign up peeps!
Scarlet
thanks for the feedback guys and gals!
Customer Service is A+, Exchange works flawlessly.
Great Job Azim, and Thank You!
few people are asking about synching from multiple sources...
from my understanding i can only give you one alias for your accounts, which means you can't select your "from." however you're free to forward as many accounts as you wish to the account i create for you, but you can only send from one "alias."
another multi-synching thing people are asking is whether you can sync calendar with your desktop and email with my service. sure!! its best that way in fact - that's what i do. i have my outlook on my desktop which has my calendar, contacts, and only sync my email via push on exchange to my server... you can even take this a step further and set up IMAP access so what you see in your email client is the same as what you'll see in your pocket outlook... if you delete from your desktop, whoosh it disappears from your PDA too

Email is DREADFUL - solution?

Yes, im comparing to the iphone again, but after years of using WM, im sick of the dreadful email client. Viewing/downloading attachments is a nightmare,, and as for HTML mail.. forget it! I hate that tap to scroll right / tap to enable Internet Pictures bollocks.
Is there a better email client or a hack to disable "tap to enable scroll right" at least? Especially considering how we have huge WVGA screens, the iphone client puts WM to shame.
You've got a point there! There must be a registry key somewhere that enables the scrolling to the right by default?
I've found on mine too that when I do swipe my finger to scroll left and right in emails it goes all the way to the right, what I mean is I can't read what's in the middle of the email without using the scroll bar.
Ya get me?
Try Flex Mail (v4 for the moment).
I would also like to see a iPhone kinda client for my Touch HD but nothing so far.
Hi,
I've tried FlexMail but it worked quite slow for me.
I put it on the SD card (this might have been a reason)
Cheers
did you use SD Tuneup?
skulk3r said:
did you use SD Tuneup?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
what is this ?
FlexMail seems to be "too fat" for me.
Looking for something leaner
cheers
The worst thing is that none of them support imap for yahoo
I found ProfiMail 3.
The UI is far from perfect but you can apply rules to the incoming emails.
It worked with my Exchange via IMAP.
cheers
the problem broadens if you think that poutlook is also responsible of sms/mms too
i fear we'll have to wait for microsoft to release a decent messaging system, and god knows when it will be available... maybe with win7?
crashDebug said:
...i fear we'll have to wait for microsoft to release a decent messaging system, and god knows when it will be available... maybe with win7?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
And if Microsoft reads this forum ...
please make the next e-mail client with full S/MIME support. Not just for Exchange. It's a shame not to be able to ecrypt mails with personal PKI certificates useing IMAP.
In general I even tried to find a decent JAVA (J2ME) based e-mail client but ... nothing so far
Agreed - e-mail client is pretty rubbish. I could live with it better if you could always enable pictures/right scrolling which are just a damned nuisance..
i'm sure MS reads this forum and finds it useless
and/or disregards hints just for principle

Tasks (To-dos) & Notes in WP7

As far as I can work out, WP7 will not support Outlook Notes and Tasks (To-Dos) or the synchronization of Notes & Tasks.
As I understand it, synch of email, calendar & contacts will happen via your Windows Live account (Windows Live will be an Exchange server soon), which can then synch to Outlook using the Windows Live Connector, but Notes and Tasks are absent from this setup.
There will be no native Notes or Tasks apps on WP7. There will be One Note, but that's a different animal and you have to purchase the PC version to be able to see your OneNotes on your PC.
Unfortunately, for me at least, Tasks is the app I use most on my phone. Since WM5.0, Microsoft crippled Tasks by removing the ability to filter out Tasks with a future Start Date, so I moved to using Pocket Informant which provides this essential feature.
Pocket Informant will not be developed for WM7 if news I've read on the Net is correct. This may be partly due to WM7 having no Tasks database, thus forcing any developer to create their own database engine for Tasks, and in any case there would be no synch with Outlook.
If all this is true, it will prevent me from moving over to WM7. My personal and business life revolve around my task list and I'd be lost without it.
Does anyone have any more information on this, especially any that shows me to be wrong?
Don't know about tasks and notes, but you can connect to any Exchange account you want.
http://www.ahead-app.com/
vangrieg said:
http://www.ahead-app.com/
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
impressive app!
clear, simple! exactly what i need
i hope other apps will be as good as this one (maybe i should start developing wp7 apps too..)
warenbe said:
impressive app!
clear, simple! exactly what i need
i hope other apps will be as good as this one (maybe i should start developing wp7 apps too..)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yes you should
yup but i've no good idea right now
warenbe said:
yup but i've no good idea right now
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
if i think of something ill let you know
That Ahead app is more like a Project manager than a simple task manager. It only seems to support priorities called "Urgent", "Later", which doesn't tie in with Outlook's three priority levels. Also it only supports a due date, but no start date. Start date is really important, as a recurring annual task to get my car MOTed should have a start date of a couple of weeks before its due, so it doesn't appear in my task list all year round. It also needs to support lots of different types of recurrance - yearly, monthly, every weekday, every 2nd Friday of the month etc etc.
Also, Ahead App doesn't do Notes or synch them.
Whilst I appreciate the link, I'm afraid it's not what I'm looking for. All I need is an app that replicates all the functionality of Outlook's Tasks and Notes and synchs them.
I can't believe this functionality, which is present by default in every version of Windows Mobile, will be absent from WP7.
I'm going to keep my fingers crossed these two essentials appear in the final release of WP7, otherwise I'll have to stick with WM6.5 and Pocket Informant until they finally do appear, whenever that may be.
Jim Coleman said:
Whilst I appreciate the link, I'm afraid it's not what I'm looking for.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, I know. These tasks also won't be synced with Exchange and can't trigger alerts on the phone, so that's not what I need either.
This is very unfortunate, but neither the iPhone nor Android have tasks, so it looks like a trend these days.
tell me if i'm wrong, but with wp7 we will not be able to create an app wich can copy tasks from outlook?
if yes, we have to create a service wich send tasks on internet and then retrieve them on the phone...
Yes, that's right, you will need to install a connector on your desktop to sync tasks with Outlook or have an intermediary server to sync with Exchange for now.
vangrieg said:
This is very unfortunate, but neither the iPhone nor Android have tasks, so it looks like a trend these days.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Google have started to integrate Tasks into Google Calendar, but thus far it is extremely basic and again doesn't incorporate Start Dates. But I think the direction Google is moving in is to incorporate Tasks into Android and use Exchange Synch.
Notes is another issue though.
IPhone is.......well, let's just skip over that one.
Jim Coleman said:
Google have started to integrate Tasks into Google Calendar
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Actually, Microsoft has done that already on Live Calendar, so maybe that's the direction they'll go with WP7, too. When I asked the Office guy directly about Tasks he said "can't comment at this time".
The Answer to Outlook Tasks and Notes
The Answer to Outlook Tasks and Notes
is
1)wait for WP7 Windows Phone 7 to get up to speed
2) WM6.5 Windows Mobile 6.5
run it on as fast a processor as possible (like maybe the HD2)
(no keyboard but you can get used to it)
with as big a display as possible, again the HD2 (same pixels as the tilt2 but more room)
the latest manila / sense, 2.5 ish is now nice and the vendors are supporting the download
co0kies home today v2 is looking very nice, tasks on the home screen.
we who use Outlook for calendar, contacts, notes, tasks
have a single app sync, and we want it not to go away.
maybe we can live with getting exchange accounts, but we're really hoping for a wm7 windows phone 7 activesync.
until this gets in shape . . .
we wait.
looking @ manila/sense with co0kies home today on a fast cpu with a big display,
we're not waiting in that much pain . . .
After almost 17 years on AT&T I moved to T-Mobile
I just got so tired of AT&T lagging on the vendor relationships with HTC and Microsoft.
I upgraded the TILT2 to the latest rom so that I could Finally get tasks on the home page
(I am a long time a complete Outlook user, Requiring Notes, Task, Calendar, Contacts, with a single simple complete sync to the phone).
Co0kies Home Today 2 is marvelous!
The rom started crashing every few hours
CHT put manilla/sense over the memory edge.
it too 45 seconds for manilla to return from sending an sms.
AT&T has no solution.
The HD2 has no keyboard (something i was very worried about)
I dove in.
WHAT A CHAMP this HD2 is.
clock Twice the speed of the Tilt2
tons more memory
a screen of a size fitting the number of pixels available
and after a few days, guess what . . . i am over my keyboard phobia ! ! !
phone number xfer in just a few of hours.
knock on wood, nice transition so far!
only irritating thing is tmomail.net
seems too eager to convert to MMSs, just because they're over 160 bytes.
(small point, that)

[Q] ActiveSync 2003 and HTML email

Anyone have any new information or found a fix for receiving HTML email in the stock HTC mail client? From what I understand Exchange ActiveSync 2007 works but not 2003. Is this correct? I've used TouchDown (which works with 2003) but I prefer the interface of the stock client.
Thanks for reading...
This is important to me.
I want to reply to emails that give the appearance of writing from my desk. Some people do question your efficiency if you often appear to be mobile.
luvit said:
This is important to me.
I want to reply to emails that give the appearance of writing from my desk. Some people do question your efficiency if you often appear to be mobile.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It think that depends on who you interface with, I've typed:
---
Sent via mobile phone
...before from my desktop to give a short answer as I look into something. But I think you should generally stick to the 5 sentences rule, or better yet 3 sentence rule.
Emails should be just a little more than a text mssg would be. Short, concise and convenient.
Touchdown has the option not to add your signature, just uncheck it...did you try that? Just sayin.
Hope you find a way, I'm on 2003 too.
Cheers
Actually, I practice that. The only thing that resembles the fact that I'm on a cellphone is that it's not html.

Categories

Resources