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" <p...@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 _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
