Reliable Wireless Email Through Cellphones?

neuroticia asks: "I recently purchased a cellphone and went with voicestream service with the expectation that I would be able to send emails through the cellphone using that service. However, my experience thus far is that only one out of every 5 outgoing emails gets through, and only 2 out of 3 incoming emails gets through. Has anyone found a wireless carrier who has a higher rate of success for delivery of emails sent through their service? Or even better- does anyone know of a wireless provider that *notifies* you when your email will not get through?"

Comments

Sprint & QCP-6035

[Moonwick]

Unless you're looking for incoming mail notification, you would probably be best served with a Kyocera Smartphone (running PalmOS) and either the included Eudora mail client, or any other of your choosing.

Note, however, that this solution will require you to check your e-mail manually, which might be undesirable for you. But it does guarantee (as much as you can trust your SMTP server) that your mail will go out.

Vodafone + Wap Works Great

[gagravarr]

I use the vodafone Wap email system, and it works great. It quite happily checks both POP3 and IMAP servers for mail (though no TLS on the connections yet). You can view your mail (and folders other than your inbox if using an IMAP mail server), send mail, file it etc. Works brilliantly, all it needs is a wap phone. Oh, and if you want, you can use GPRS to access the vodafone wap service, so you wouldn't even need to dialup before sending and receiving.

Since you're probably in America, I'd go look for your local vodafone partner, and see if they offer a similar service. http://www.vodafone.com/ would be the place to start looking.