wapmail
Entrian wapmail lets you access a POP3 email account via WAP on your mobile phone or PDA. Use it by adding an address to your phone's bookmarks like this:
http://entrian.com/cgi-bin/wapmail.py/server/username/password
replacing 'server', 'username' and 'password' with your POP3 account details.
Demonstration: Enter your POP3 account details here to try out wapmail online:
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Advantages:
- Because your login details go into a bookmark, you don't need to type them in every time.
- As well as saving time and effort, this makes the WAP call much shorter and cheaper, if you pay by the minute. Checking your email needs only a few seconds of airtime.
- wapmail hides rather than deletes messages - see below.
- It's free!
Hiding messages: Rather than deleting emails, wapmail lets you hide them so they don't appear in the list while still remaining in your POP3 account for later retrieval. There are several reasons for this:
- You can't accidentally delete an email because of finger trouble on a tiny phone keypad.
- Lots of messages, like mailing list postings, aren't important enough to view on the move. They clutter your email list, but you don't want to delete them. Hiding them is the answer.
- Wading through lots of emails on a phone is tedious. By hiding any uninteresting messages, you make the whole idea a lot more practical.
- It gives the option of automatically hiding suspected spam, though wapmail doesn't (yet) do that.
Security: Your password is held only in the bookmark within your phone. It isn't stored by wapmail, just used transiently to access your POP3 account. It does pass in plain text across the internet, so if that worries you, you shouldn't use wapmail.
Legal: Use of the wapmail server on entrian.com is free but comes with no warranty - see the disclaimer in wapmail.py. Entrian wapmail is implemented in wapmail.py, which is freely downloadable for use in Open Source projects under the Sleepycat License. Commercial licensing is also available for a fee - please contact richie@entrian.com for information.