What is the closest we PPC users can get to the email push convenience of the Blackberrys? If I am connected to a wireless network, why can't my PPC tell me if mail has arrived? Why do I have to press a button to do that?

The email implementation on WinMob is pathetic, IMO. Using Pocket Outlook (Messenger), I can't check mail outside the house because I can't ActiveSync. (Maybe I don't know how to use this properly?) I have tried to set up ActiveSync over VPN but I have had no luck in this hellaciously tricky task.

I tried nPopw and it has a fatal bug. The menus don't display on my VGA device. This is a non-starter.

Email from the browser is awkward. It won't let me attach files to send.

I'll check out WebIS mail next. Will this be any better?

I've looked at related threads and there seems to only a few choices to do email. There are two dozen launchers and task switchers, but only a couple of email clients? I find this hard to believe that this obvious need would be left unaddressed.

Sorry for the rant.

Isn't push email included in WM2005?

Of course you'll STILL need all the security components such as VPN if you want to a do it securely etc.

Email is complicated so there is not a simple answer.

You can AS over VPN. You can get your mail via POP/IMAP. You can get your mail via a web browser. So many options means that there will be complexity.

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

   

Simulated email push, by frequent polling (user configurable), would be good enough for me.

I would at least be able to check email without having to ActiveSync. With the base installed software, I can only receive email on my Axim when I'm at home - where I prefer to read it from the PC. When I need it the most, on the road, I can't get email except by checking from the web. Am I the only one who finds this incredibly lame?

I too have been amazed at the lack of email clients for Windows Mobile....it is an area that seems to be overlooked.

You can do what I do - I use WebIS mail and have the same accounts set up on that as on the desktop, but I have it set up to leave the mail on the server. That way I can set it to check every hour if I want but know that any email that I get on the Axim will still appear on the desktop later.

I also have an additional POP3 server set up on the desktop PC. No-one else uses that email address - it is only for me to BCC: all email I send from the Axim to myself. That way I get a copy of everything I send, downloaded to the desktop.

It's ugly but it does work.

It's as if developers got tired of creating boring email applications. Really, it's not that hard to do. I'd certainly like to see more ingenuity in email clients for all the developer effort spent in writing pretty today screen plug-ins. (How many of those do we really need?)

It just seems a shame that our non-techie friends have a better email solution on their Nokia cellphones than we have on our "sophisticated" platform.

I guess WebIS mail is the one entry in this space. I guess we'll have to live with it until WM2005 comes around.