Am 16.08.2013 12:58, schrieb Sam Varshavchik: > As far as smartphones, the elephant in the room is Android, and > Android's gmail client uses who knows what to talk to Google. But > whatever it does, it's damn good about it. I think there's a standard > mail client somewhere on my phone, that can talk to a generic IMAP > server, but I never used it. I'm guessing that this is typical of Android. > > On Iphones, I think that Apple's mail client is a standard IMAP/POP3 > client, but, once again purely based on nothing more than an impression, > Android's winning that battle.
My newer experience with mail on Smartphones changed. In the past IMAP was the standard to go outside corporate environments, with bad and worse IMAP clients seen on several mobile platforms. Android and iPhones are not too bad at IMAP, Nokia (Symbian) was quite limited, not to talk about Windows Phones. The new way to go (IMHO) is to use an Exchange / ActiveSync interface. People are used to sync contacts and calendars along with their mail. Solutions such as Tine 2.0 come in quite handy, Tine is purely LAMP-based and runs on a standard shared webhost, no shell access or server support needed. It is a groupware including a standard IMAP client but it also provides - through URL rewrite rules and PHP - interfaces to WebDAV and ActiveSync. I use it since several months and it works great. It really made using GNU/Linux and Courier MTA really easy with Smartphones. On desktop platforms Thunderbird etc. are still the way to go (Lightning can use Tine calendars via WebDAV / CalDAV, the SoGo Connector sync Thunderbird addressbooks via WebDAV / CardDAV). /Manuel -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
