New Flexmail Beta

volwrath · 03/08/2007, 08:37 PM

http://www.pocketinformant.com/Forum...howtopic=11043

I intend to try it to see how it handles imap idle now

scottymomo · 03/08/2007, 08:52 PM

Me too

volwrath · 03/08/2007, 10:09 PM

So far so good. This may be the email client to end all email clients.. imap idle working well with fastmail.

makrotonik · 03/08/2007, 10:28 PM

seconded. I have been using flexmail through a slew of progressivley buggy versions and this is the most stable imaple with idle build yet. looks like chattermail will soon be a distant memory for most ex palm user.

scottymomo · 03/08/2007, 10:30 PM

Question for you guys...on Chatter connected to our corporate email over SSL IDLE worked fine..when I read the documentation (albeit from a prior version) for Flexmail it says IDLE is only for non SSL accounts.. is that right? I didn't start getting emails automatically in flexmail until I turned on "Check for new mail every X minutes" and set it to 1.

I shouldn't have to set that should I?

scottymomo · 03/08/2007, 10:36 PM

Do you also find scrolling speed down the message list (don't use the preview option) to be a little slow (annoyingly slow)...hopefully they can fix that

volwrath · 03/08/2007, 10:41 PM

I saw a secure option on incoming mail tab that was selectable with idle. I didnt select the check for new mail every x mins tho. i just selected the idle and boom it started coming in. Possibly a q for the webis forums although ive noticed that there isnt a lot of participation on those forums.

volwrath · 03/08/2007, 11:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scottymomo

Do you also find scrolling speed down the message list (don't use the preview option) to be a little slow (annoyingly slow)...hopefully they can fix that

I turned off preview too...and scrolling through the messages can be slow you are correct.

OTOH fastmail itself is fast. It used to be buggy and it ran like a dog

volwrath · 03/09/2007, 10:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scottymomo

Question for you guys...on Chatter connected to our corporate email over SSL IDLE worked fine..when I read the documentation (albeit from a prior version) for Flexmail it says IDLE is only for non SSL accounts.. is that right? I didn't start getting emails automatically in flexmail until I turned on "Check for new mail every X minutes" and set it to 1.

I shouldn't have to set that should I?

Did you get this issue resolved? I found this on pocket informant board.

edit: I see you were the one who posted the message on webis forums... nevermind

stroths · 03/09/2007, 10:42 AM

Has anyone here tested this with Exchange activesync push? The one thing I miss the most from Chatter is html email, which flexmail supports.

skfny · 03/09/2007, 10:56 AM

IFF this works better than the previous betas I've tried, I would strongly consider moving to the WM side, specially considering Marc's situation.

scottymomo · 03/09/2007, 12:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by volwrath

Did you get this issue resolved? I found this on pocket informant board.

edit: I see you were the one who posted the message on webis forums... nevermind

Yep, got it sorted...after fumbling with the settings for quite a while, I set it as I thought it needed to be set, exited the program completely and came back in, and it seems to be working fine now...

although with only flexmail running at one stage I dropped down to about 6mb of program memory left and the phone totally slowed to a crawl...ah well, it is beta, but looking pretty promising so far once I figured out some of the settings (like only retrieving email from the past X days, size of downloaded emails, etc)...

volwrath · 03/09/2007, 12:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stroths

Has anyone here tested this with Exchange activesync push? The one thing I miss the most from Chatter is html email, which flexmail supports.

Well I imagine it would work with activesync push, but I dont think Activesync push allows for .html email

moderateinny · 03/09/2007, 10:48 PM

Not trying to sound jaded here but I've read their forum and looked at the app and frankly it seems like an overly-complicated program designed by a software engineer that is quite pleased with himself about the zillion features he has built-in. I want an email app that doesn't make me wade through 5 menus just to delete a SPAM message and this seems to be as awkward to use as Outlook. So if I am already using vgsmail for IMAP IDLE, what does this app buy me?

volwrath · 03/10/2007, 02:13 PM

Well I am also a user of vgsmail on the treo, and I like flexmail alot better. For one things, VGSmail will crash, and makes my treo unstable somewhat. When I run VGSmail, i tend to reset at least once per day, and many times multiple. Also VGSmail tends to bog down the wx when running. VGSmail also sometimes has a problem with attachments for me. Flexmail is fast, and stable. It has a few minor issues, but think they will be ironed out soon enough.Also has the ability to view/delete/reply to messages from notification screen, html email, send from other accts. Why not try it out? The public beta has a 2 week trial. I have it coexisting peacefully with vgsmail, tho i must admit, havent run vgsmail in a while.

Beryl · 03/10/2007, 11:47 PM

I've registered, upgraded, and uninstalled this product for years now. I'm glad to hear that this latest is stable. I may give it a try.

treoboy! · 03/12/2007, 06:19 PM

Thanks Volwrath. This may put me over the edge. Think I'll go buy a wx in order to give it a try.

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Treo 300, 650, 700p

volwrath · 03/12/2007, 07:20 PM

Treoboy you always been over the edge.

stroths · 03/16/2007, 01:25 PM

Has anyone tried this with the threaded sms hack from hannip? When I try to install it, I get an error that it can't delete \Windows\tmail.exe. This is one of the files that is used by the threaded SMS app, so I don't know if it would break that app.

neill · 03/16/2007, 05:29 PM

I read in the support forums that HTML doesn't render in ActiveSync messages-- is this true?

Will the WM 5.0 Word Completion work within Flexmail?

Thanks so much.