On Monday 09 December 2002 07:57 pm, Steve Mann wrote: > Yes. What do you need to know specifically? Also, you might want to > direct these types of questions to the handspring developer's forum.
I couldn't find one which was active. The yahoo group has a last post in 2001 etc etc. I have a freeware email smtp/pop which I've been upgrading to do scheduled pops. My device is a treo 300 but I'd of course like to do things appropriately as to not exclude other devices as well. Currently I use a scheme whereby I wake the device up via AlmProc and bounce a udp packet off my server. This tells me whether there is mail to be popped, so that I can do the more expensive pop operation only when needed. So far it's been great, and has improved battery life considerably. Takes around 4 seconds typical for my udp probe to complete, but I'm not in great coverage. It *almost* feels like a BlackBerry when I use a 10 minute poll interval :) I have some rules where I always yield my operations to the user, and I also have stuff where I auto-OK those annoying failure to connect messages. It's not quite done in the background, but you know, surprisingly that hasn't been much of an issue as I rarely see it doing it's thing and I get ~200 msg/day on the thing. I have also modified the Palm Mail application to allow database sharing and dynamic screen updates, as well as hotkeys for the treo. Of course I'll post a link to this stuff once I get my testing done, and finish up an smtp-auth code merge I'm doing right now. Anyways, I'd like to also experiment with using SMS as a trigger. This way I can have more flexibility from the server side as to when a pop is needed, and further improve battery life by not requiring data services to be enabled full-time on the device. Sorry to be so long-winded above. What I need specifically re: SMS, is that I need a way to register for incoming SMS notification and be able to; determine if the SMS is mine, and also silently consume it. -- /* Chris Faherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
