FlexMail 2007 Rev 2 Public Beta for PPC and Smartphones

**Chris Leckness** · 03-08-07, 08:38 AM

A few days ago we released a public beta of FlexMail 2007 on our forums. This release has had many months of very focused determined work on really making the best email client on any platform. We've had a lot of misses in the past on this but this time I think we got there. Part of the reason is we took some of our biggest critics and brought them in to our internal testing team. These guys hammered the software like a piece of steel being made into a sword. We got some very talented people on the Smartphone side as well that have allowed us to really polish the Smartphone side of the software very well.

Typically when we have done a public beta of FlexMail in the past we would have 500 messages within 2 days with bugs. I'l be honest. This time, our biggest issues seem to be some smartphones are not vibrarying/alerting on new mail (we think its a registry issue so easy fix), and a few other smartphone related minor UI issues. Its a very impressive release.

Some of the things that FlexMail 2007 Rev 2 brings to all users:

Of course we've got the really intuitive Folder/Message UI
And we've always had HTML email for all Windows Mobile 2003/5/6 users
We've added full IMAP IDLE support for immediate notification of new mail even while sleeping
An Auto-Reply Rules action for FlexMail's rules
Easily send pictures on Windows Mobile 5
CRAM-MD5 Connections/Login for IMAP
Awesome new email notifications that really show you each new incoming email which you can read, delete, mark as read, flag - all from any application
New message reading interface
Much faster IMAP downloads of email
Complete menu reorganization to really make using FlexMail much easier
Account Templates like GMail
Single Key shortcuts to delete, reply and much more
And while normally we wouldn't be proud of this - a few hundred bug fixes and dramatically improved performance.

FlexMail 2007 Rev 2 is now up to the standard that Pocket Informant is known for throughout the Windows Mobile community. This is a public beta - while no known crashes exist, no known reliability issues exist - we really want your help in testing this software for final release. We've gotten a lot of positive feedback in the last two days; probably more than we've ever had before. So I'd like to make sure that we get all the cracks filled if any still exist. I say that with some trepidation because we all know software has cracks that sometimes only are found when we get enough people working on it.
Go here for more info

03-08-07, 10:01 AM

Looks good. I already had Flexmail 2007 on my x51v....and I downloaded the beta cab file..... some nice little additions here and there....

going to play with it.... a little while....

Susan

03-08-07, 10:34 AM

Thanks for the heads up Chris.

aedmunds7 · 03-08-07, 10:55 AM

Thanks a bunch Chris -- already have this on my x50v -- works like a charm - now even BETTER!!!

speedy1979 · 03-08-07, 01:30 PM

Hotmail has been intergrated. :approve: :clap: GO CHRIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jag257 · 03-08-07, 02:28 PM

where can I download flexmail? Does this program have to be downloaded on to the main memory? Thanks in advance!!!

AKAJohnDoe · 03-08-07, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by jag257

where can I download flexmail? Does this program have to be downloaded on to the main memory? Thanks in advance!!!

If you have not been running FlexMail it might be best for you to download the released version rather than a beta version. While the beta is very stable in my use, it still is a beta. The released version may be obtained from WebIS. I install it into BIS on my WM2003SE device.

chrischmura · 03-11-07, 02:13 PM

Looks pretty neat, I havent used Flexmail before, I am going to give it a try!

Thanks Lecky!!!!

kam33mitch · 03-11-07, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by speedy1979

Hotmail has been intergrated. :approve: :clap: GO CHRIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What hotmail? I D/L'ed the software but there's nothing to support Hotmail that I can see. What are you basing this statement on?

03-11-07, 07:25 PM

In Flexmail if you click Menu>Send and receive>

above send all, receive all, and send and receive all........ one of the email accounts listed is hotmail (it is on mine)

Susan

sgtommyc · 03-12-07, 08:37 AM

HTML Mail? Like in real HTML, just like on my PC :jd: That I'll have to see

Does that mean, I don't have to get WM6 after all :headscrat

speedy1979 · 03-12-07, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by kam33mitch

What hotmail? I D/L'ed the software but there's nothing to support Hotmail that I can see. What are you basing this statement on?

See screenshot.

:approve:

speedy1979 · 03-12-07, 11:28 AM

Here's what I think flexmail is doing: Flexmail is importing the settings found on my pocketpc for hotmail.

I'm assuming that this is the case because:

1. When I installed flexmail beta 2 hotmail had already been configuered.
2. If i check runing process (using memaid) pMSNServer.exe is always running after using flexmail beta 2.
3. All pocketmsn options are greyed out.

I do have a few complaints however it appears that It does not receive or send email and it cannot be configured.

speedy1979 · 03-13-07, 10:30 AM

It turns out that my suspicions were correct after reporting the problem I was having with hotmail I was informed that flexmail uses pMSN settings it simply imports whatever pMSN has received which means unfortunately no HTML mail since pMSN doesn't support it.