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

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

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.