PDA Connect and IMAP

[brichr]

Does anyone have insight into Novell's plans for making Mail Plus and IMAP client as well. They seem to be light years behind the competition on this one. Not only did they take forever to release PDA connect but now everyone wants IMAP and they don't offer it.

I know there are other IMAP clients out there for my TREO 650 but they all suck so far. Versamail is painfully slow, and SnapperMail 2.2.3 beta does not delete email out of my account without hanging.

To me this seems like not a lot to ask for. Im still waiting for OMNI mobile to release its end all be all client but they are lagging on porting it from Pocket PC to Palm.

 

[gioffre]

Hi,

I don't believe that there are any plans for Novell to develop an IMAP client for the Palm device. That really has nothing at all to do with GroupWise itself, and as you mentioned there already are IMAP clients for Palm (whether they work or not). Novell's concern is to make the server accessible through standard methods (POP, IMAP, HTTP, ICAL, etc...) and leave it up to the user to pick the standards-based software of choice.

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[ITsmyfault]

I have to 100% agree with gioffre on this. For one, GW has had an IMAP server for a long time, POP as well. I've had folks poping and/or IMAPing mail on various devices/clients for years. The point of using and adhering to standards like IMAP is so that 3rd party apps can work. Palm should have an IMAP client, or there should be a 3rd party IMAP client for Palm that can hit any email IMAP server. I agree that Novell should not be writing apps for handhelds, celphones and the like. Think first of the short lifespan of these devices. Second the low penetration of them. Third the constant changes going on in their own OS's, hardware etc. The ROI probably is just not there to justify the headache of writing code, porting it to 4 OS platforms (linux, pocketPC, Palm, RIM/Java) + hardware platforms + support..
ack!

I am glad they wrote PDA sync though. The sync process is probably going to stay USB for a while, the schemas that get mapped to/from are not going to change much, and it really helps the product out.. without being a nightmare to support - hopefully.