[missing-sync-palmos-talk] Syncing with Mail.app

[Brian Hall]

>Hi all,
>
>Don't have 'my' Tungsten T3 yet, but I'm purchasing one really soon...
>I'm looking out to interesting sofware for the Palm however...
>
>I'm very interested in Missing Sync for Palm, but I seem to miss one
>'little' feature: Mail-syncing
>
>I want to be able to take my mail with me at the morning, process them
>during daytime, and send the processed mail with my desktop machine at
>the evening.
>
>This seems a very strong - but IMO obvious - feature that's missing
>from Missing Sync... is it on the ToDo list?
>
>So far, I haven't found anything that does this with Mail.app (and i'm
>hesitating to turn back to Entourage for it, AND would prefer not to
>use another seperate application for it) so this would be a selling
>point for me ;)
>
>Any ideas?

There are two ways you could go about it right now with off the shelf
software...

1 - www.queuesoft.jp has a conduit that goes between mail.app and
Mark/Space Mail (as well as CLIE Mail and I think Palm Mail).

2 - Missing Sync for Palm OS and Missing Sync for Internet Sharing and
AvantGo allow you to share your internet connection with your handheld
(such as the T3). If you go this route, you just pick your favorite email
client on the Palm, and retreive/send the email right from the Palm (make
sure you "leave mail on server" so you can later get it on the deskop as
well). This is documented in the manual we include.

Since there are so many combinations of email clients on both the handheld
(10+ popular ones) and Mac (5+ popular ones) it becomes a losing
proposition for a commercial software developer to try and cover them all
via custom conduits, and covering only 1 or 2 pairs just makes the other
95% of the people unhappy ;-)

So "never say never", but we have other features we are working on (see
www.markspace.com/cobalt.html) that apply to *everyone* and are keeping us
quite busy for the time being ;-)

Brian

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