Comments on: Send & Receive E-mail with MyHandEmail & AvantGo

Try this: You are in the doctor's office waiting endlessly for your name to be called. To pass the time, you pull out your Palm and read the email you were sent overnight. You reply to a couple of messages and write a new one to your Human Resources manager telling him your company really needs a new HMO. When you finally get back to your desk, you pop your Palm into its cradle and HotSync. All your e-mails get sent. There, instead of the wait in the doctor's office being dead time, you've put it to use and you can get back to work as soon as you sit down.

OK, but I can do that already: with the Palm's Mail app and the conduit to Outlook. So what is the value added by using Avantgo for the same thing? Granted, I use Avantgo and I love it, but can't I already do this?

This "Competition" thing you speak of, how does it work? Can software companies use it too? hmm...maybe one day it'll be viable in our world.

...and thats one to grow on.

If you have a set-up that lets you use your email on your Palm and you are happy with it, then this is clearly not for you. But if you don't, this might be a godsend for you.

There is at least one group who might find it handy: Mac users have to buy a third party conduit to let them connect their Palm with an e-mail app on their desktop. MyHandEmail is free.

This is where the e-mail conduit is clearly better than My HandEmail. It can only find messages that you haven't already downloaded. If you take them off the server and download them onto your desktop, then they can't be also downloaded onto your Palm.

The only way to prevent this is to NOT download them. If you know you want to access your messages later on your handheld, don't download them onto your PC. Or at least leave them on the server when you put them on there.

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Actually one thing you can do is access your email on your desktop as an IMAP account. Then basically myhandemail will be able to download all your new messages from the server since IMAP leaves all messages on the server. Hopefully myhandemail leaves the messages it downloads on the server though so it won't ruin your IMAP setup...

It's an interesting option. Since I'm a Mac user running OS X I'm kind of left high and dry as far as syncing email with my Palm...

they do, but it costs a fee or something like that

Pepper, did you apply the Palm USB HotSync fix? I had the same prob. but now it is gone!

The third sentance in the article is "To use this, it is necessary to sign up on the service's website, enter the account information, then add the corresponding AvantGo channel." If you went straight to AvantGo to sign up, you failed the reading and comprehention part of the test and will be forced to ride to school on the short bus from now on.

it does, just be MINE
-CIPTG

I agree. It's amazing how trusting people are. Here you go - have access to my e-mail in return for letting me download mail more conveniently. Stupid.