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

[Brian Hall]

>> 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).
>
>Hm. This one looks indeed interesting, but am I correct to see that
>it's not an iSync 'plugin' and depends on the PalmDesktop sofware (wich
>I'm told to avoid

iSync uses Hotsync Manager (which you only get by installing Palm Desktop)
anyway.

So if you use iSync with your Palm OS device, you are also using (at least
part of) Palm Desktop.

> + I don't want to use multiple systems to sync the
>palm - I seem to prefer iSync / Missing Sync ;) )?

See above. If you use iSync, it is riding on top of hotsync manager anyway.

So you can use iSync/iCal/Address for the PIM data and the mail conduit and
mail.app for your mail data.

>> 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.
>
>Hm... don't think that manual is online right?
>Talking about the website: perhaps some pages with screenshots would be
>nice? ;)

The whole web site is currently getting an upgrade/new look. Product tours
are part of that upgrade. Isn't there now, but will show up soon.

>Well... As you do seem to support all Apple included tools as iTunes,
>iPoto, etc... The obviouse choice seems Mail then, right? ;)

It would make the "most sense", but there is no single mail app that has a
majority of the mac desktop. I personally use Eudora. At Mark/Space it is
pretty even between Eudora, Mail.app and Entourage. Then you have
MailSmith, and many others.

For those using Mail.app, the existing conduit already mentioned is out
there, and there may be others (do a search on www.versiontracker.com for
"mail conduit").

>> 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 ;-)
>
>Seems interesting indeed, but hopefully we'll be able to upgrade our
>current devices with Cobalt...

That would be up to the device manufacturers of course. Also Cobalt
requires an ARM processors, so any current 3.x or 4.x device would be out
(same reason that they can't be upgraded to 5.x).

Brian

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