Up till now, I've been using gmail through the onboard web browser to check & occasionally respond to email on my 6680. It works ok, except that
-- it's a bit expensive as each page gmail has to work in the mode where it renders an ~100K page for everything.
-- it's a bit awkward as you have to scroll over a lot of crap at the top of each page to read your message/get to your message list.
So I decided to set up the mail client on my phone -- I created a separate account on one of my Linux boxes at work and forward only selected mail to it. Then I set up a mailbox that uses IMAP to talk to the mail server on the phone.
It works brilliantly except that the Messenger app on the phone crashes frequently, requiring a power off/on of the phone to get working again.
Has anybody had much success with this? When it does work, it's very bandwidth efficient, as the server sends about 20 bytes every 2 minutes in IMAP IDLE mode. (Which probably corresponds to 60-70 bytes of IP traffic). When messenger hasn't crashed, you get notification of incomming mail within 2 mins (that's how often the IMAP server checks to see if the mailbox has changed).
-- it's a bit expensive as each page gmail has to work in the mode where it renders an ~100K page for everything.
-- it's a bit awkward as you have to scroll over a lot of crap at the top of each page to read your message/get to your message list.
So I decided to set up the mail client on my phone -- I created a separate account on one of my Linux boxes at work and forward only selected mail to it. Then I set up a mailbox that uses IMAP to talk to the mail server on the phone.
It works brilliantly except that the Messenger app on the phone crashes frequently, requiring a power off/on of the phone to get working again.
Has anybody had much success with this? When it does work, it's very bandwidth efficient, as the server sends about 20 bytes every 2 minutes in IMAP IDLE mode. (Which probably corresponds to 60-70 bytes of IP traffic). When messenger hasn't crashed, you get notification of incomming mail within 2 mins (that's how often the IMAP server checks to see if the mailbox has changed).