Re: [Evolution] BB MUA [Was: field on the evolution list]



On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 08:37 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 08:02 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 05:30 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:39 AM, "Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve> wrote:
Apparently it doesn't support bottom-posting either.
IPhone >=3.0, yes. Blackberry, no.
I found this hard to credit so I checked on my daughter's BB. It's true
that the email app strongly encourages you to top-post, but it is
possible to work around it:
1) Copy the quoted text
2) Select the option to not quote
3) Paste the quoted text and continue at the end.
The quoted text is not set off by indentation or leading marks so you'd
need to insert a boundary line.
I acknowledge that this is laborious, but for mailing lists I also think
bottom-posting is important. Of course you could also use your BB for
work-related and one-to-one mail, and use your desktop for list traffic.

Are there (is it even possible?) alternate MUAs for the BB?  I'm
curious, I have BB users, some of whom are quite clueful.


It's not easy - you can use Googlemail on it since there is a specific
Google mobile app for BB.  But it's just as bad as the built-in MUA when
it comes to quoting (it doesn't even show the quoted email when
composing, it just adds it to the end when you send the mail!)

I don't think it's really possible to use a "proper" client on a BB -
all the traffic from the BB goes via either a BES or a BIS and as such
is totally under the control of the provider (whether that be your
company or the telco).  With a BIS your BB doesn't do the IMAP side of
things, that's done by the server which then pushes the email to the BB.
With a BES it pushes the email directly from (usually) the exchange
store.

So if you can't do IMAP or POP, then I don't think it's possible to have
a different MUA.

P.




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