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« on: June 13, 2005, 03:50:35 am »
Hello

I'm looking for the "best" mail program for the Zaurus SL-C3000.
What means "best" to me?:

* Must be able to handle a LOT of emials (my mail archive on the 200LX palmtop is now as large as about 3000+ mails in different folders), still being fast

* must have a generic mailbox file format, such as mbox, so I can convert my old mail archives easily into that format

* Must be able to handle multiple accounts

* Must handle modern mail formats (multipart, HTML, attachments without size limitation)

* Must support automatic filtering of emails to different folders depending on subject and/or sender

* May be console based, but a GUI would be nicer.

* Preferrable open source so I'm able to modify the program if I need to.

Any recommendations?

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« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2005, 05:40:35 am »
There are no good native mail apps on the Zaurus. The original one is OK for pop, and if you only maintain a small mail inbox in IMAP. It crashes and burns if you load it just a bit too much.
The kopiemail client is all-around terrible, but it will handle a bigger IMAP inbox. If you want a client that's actually flexible and usable, you're probably going to have to run X, and the responsiveness will suck. Plus the fact that the Z only has 64MB onboard. Yuck.
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« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2005, 08:48:36 am »
Does tkcMail work on the C3000?

It has IMAP capability and also permits storage to SD/CF cards.

I suspect it needs a little bit more development and general tidying up but encouragement by way of sales could achieve that.
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« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2005, 09:21:58 am »
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There are no good native mail apps on the Zaurus. The original one is OK for pop, and if you only maintain a small mail inbox in IMAP. It crashes and burns if you load it just a bit too much.
The kopiemail client is all-around terrible, but it will handle a bigger IMAP inbox. If you want a client that's actually flexible and usable, you're probably going to have to run X, and the responsiveness will suck. Plus the fact that the Z only has 64MB onboard. Yuck.
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    The GUI based mail programs that I've tried on the Z certainly are terrible, but there's always Pine.  :-)

   That's what I use for my IMAP client.  The only thing missing is TLS, but as I connect to my mail server via my cellphone, I'm not as worried about that as I would be if I were using a public WiFi system.

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« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2005, 09:55:47 am »
Pine would probably be fine for me. However, I just tried to install it from

http://www.simos.com/pine_4.55_arm.ipk

but the installer application shows a blank screen when I tap on that IPK. Happens with some IPKs here. Does anyone know the reason?

If I  try to install it from the command line with ipkg install pine_4.55_arm.ipk I get "ipkg_install_file: ERROR unpacking control.tar.gz from pine_4.55_arm.ipk".

Any ideas?

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« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2005, 10:36:24 am »
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Pine would probably be fine for me. However, I just tried to install it from

http://www.simos.com/pine_4.55_arm.ipk

but the installer application shows a blank screen when I tap on that IPK. Happens with some IPKs here. Does anyone know the reason?

If I  try to install it from the command line with ipkg install pine_4.55_arm.ipk I get "ipkg_install_file: ERROR unpacking control.tar.gz from pine_4.55_arm.ipk".

Any ideas?

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daniel
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This happens on some newer webservers that try to be smart and do on the fly decompression for you. What you can do is to use a browser that tells the web server that it is not capable of these features. Try using wget or lynx to download the package
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« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2005, 12:12:27 pm »
Or you can just gzip the ipk again and remove the .gz after

You will also get this message if you try to install an ipk compressed using ar rather than gzip. You can test this by doing
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file pine_4.55_arm.ipk if you have file installed.

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« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2005, 10:39:15 am »
This mere conversation is the proof consumer level mailing on the Z is an illusion
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« Reply #8 on: June 21, 2005, 03:15:08 am »
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This mere conversation is the proof consumer level mailing on the Z is an illusion
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I use Thunderbird on my Z quite happily.
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« Reply #9 on: June 21, 2005, 06:17:50 am »
A lot of people seem to be happy with opie-mail3 - you might want to give that a try.
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« Reply #10 on: June 21, 2005, 06:45:46 am »
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A lot of people seem to be happy with opie-mail3 - you might want to give that a try.
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Does that run under Cacko / Sharp ROM? Where can I find it?

OM/PI is based on opiemail, so they are probably similar?

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« Reply #11 on: June 21, 2005, 08:51:05 am »
Yeah, OM/PI should be pretty similar to opiemail.
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« Reply #12 on: June 26, 2005, 07:18:04 pm »
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I use Thunderbird on my Z quite happily.
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How long does it take to start up?
By consumer-level I mean something that's as usable as Versa-mail.
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Yeah, OM/PI should be pretty similar to opiemail.
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No offense intended, but I hope Opiemail is better, because OM/Pi is pretty terrible.
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