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

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 13:56 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> 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.

Google found a few, e.g. http://www.logicprobe.org/proj/logicmail is
free and is a real IMAP client (no idea whether it supports
bottom-posting though). There are also some commercial products. e.g.
http://crackberry.com/tiggit-mail-blackberry-email-alternative. 

poc