Email On My Palm Treo 650
I'm one of the few proud owners of the versatile Palm Treo 650 phone / PDA in the Lubbock market, and I thought I would share some of what I've found useful while using this phone over the past 7 months. This particular post is about its email functionality.I received this phone, flashed with version 1.12a of the Sprint Treo ROM, as a present from my lovely wife, to attempt a simplification of my business and personal relationships. However, between January and late February I just didn't have the time to use it for anything more than a phone. It works very well as a phone, including the BlueTooth which had been flaky on my last phone, an LG PM-325. My two complaints are that I sounded choppy to the person I was talking to (only with BlueTooth), and the battery life when using BlueTooth was minimal with the included 1800 mA battery.
In February I took the time to get the default eMail client, VersaMail, to work with our custom email setup. We keep our email system in our Lubbock office, and to get to the email system one has to go penetrate two firewalls (a hardware firewall/router and a secondary software firewall), and then the security on the actual mail server (which is a third machine). This requires opening up an IMAP or POP3 (I chose the superior IMAP) hole in both firewall systems, as well as a sendmail hole to allow myself to send email from the Treo. I rapidly found out that VersaMail does not get along well with our dovecot email solution, and I had to go find a new email client.
ChatterEmail was the obvious solution. My 30 day trial with ChatterEmail ended in the purchase of the software, which is excellently supported by the developer (Marc Blank). Without any modifications Chatter was able to read email out of our email servers. I did one small issue, a conflict between the 1.12a version of the ROM and Chatter which caused the software to go into an endless reboot loop. When I upgraded to the latest stable 1.13 Sprint ROM, the problems appear to have gone away. It also solved many other problems like the BlueTooth audio (mentioned above).My only complaint with the email functionality is that the data connection (on Sprint phones) takes over the radio and no phone calls can come through. However, this is not a Treo or a Chatter problem, but is a limitation of the Sprint CDMA protocol.
Email functionality ...... is certainly a wonderful thing!
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