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Best Zaurus Email or One-User WebMail Application?

Posted by Cliff on from the handheld-email-device dept.

strredwolf asks: "After upgrading my Zaurus SL-5500 to the much-better OpenZaurus 3.0 ROM, I'm left with a lack of an e-mail application that does POP. Short of compiling one up, what would folks there use with the OZ-bearing PDA? Ether a POP-capable mail app, or even a webmail system I can use Konqueror on? (And no, Yahoo! Mail doesn't work on it, even though Opera on the Sharp ROM worked well with that site)"

16 comments

  1. What works for me... by arcadum · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have the devolper model and am running Kmail...

    1. Re:What works for me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      oh? Where can I get that?

  2. Opie-Mail by RedPhoenix · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Opie mailer supports POP. See http://opie.handhelds.org/
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  3. try irc by hfastedge · · Score: 1

    try irc.freenode.net there is both a #zaurus and #openzaurus

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  4. Running Opie under a PC! by Keitarou · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry but this is the 3rd time I'm asking this. Maybe this time people will bother answering.

    Is there a way to run Opie in a PC? Under Linux, Windows or VMWare? I don't care, just let me experience with it!

    1. Re:Running Opie under a PC! by mwa · · Score: 2
      There's a Qtopia demo on a floppy at Trolltech . Somewhere on there was a X framebuffer application that you could run Qtopia in a window under X (it may be in the Qtopia SDK but I don't remember for sure).

      In both cases, however, you'd have to get the Opie source and re-compile them for X86 since the ipk's are all pre-compiled for the Z.

      Honestly, if you've got a Zaurus, the easiest way to try it is to just back up everything and flash OZ. It's just not that hard to flash back and forth. I did it in the very early days and went almost immediately back to the Sharp ROM and just restored the data. Then I went to Paul Flinders "enhanced" (/home on SD card) rom. Since OZ 2.9.5-beta-something, however, I haven't looked back.

    2. Re:Running Opie under a PC! by Keitarou · · Score: 1

      Thanks for the reply.

      In both cases, however, you'd have to get the Opie source and re-compile them for X86 since the ipk's are all pre-compiled for the Z.

      Does it involve changing the source? Because I have no idea how to do that (yet).

    3. Re:Running Opie under a PC! by mwa · · Score: 2
      There's a cross-compile howto that will help you set up your environment. In addition to the tools, you may also need the kernel source (or at least the headers) and any libraries and header files required for the x86 target. But you shouldn't have to make any source code changes.

      You may also want to ask on #opie on IRC to see if they have a more Opie specific howto somewhere.

  5. funny... by swotl · · Score: 2, Informative

    the OZ rom is sooo superior, yet you can't read your email and you can't (really) browse the web ;)

    just kidding...

    have you tried running the qtmail client in OZ? i see it's located at /home/QtPalmtop/bin/qtmail on my Z - which i'll be upgrading to OZ sometime soon :)

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  6. tKcMail by booch · · Score: 2
    The Kompany makes a really nice set of applications for the Zaurus. They've got a really nice email program currently in beta. It even does things like IMAP/SSL. The tKc applications are known to work just fine under OpenZaurus 3.0, although the OZ ROMs are not officially supported.

    It should also be possible to save the email application that comes with the Zaurus to install on top of OZ. Better yet, just download Opie's mail app.

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  7. Does it not work or does it really not work. by 1101z · · Score: 1

    Have you tried changing your browser string so that Konqueror pretends to be say mozilla on x86 linux. And then seen if it will render yahoo mail. Or have you gone there and you gotten the your browser/platform not supported message. Because if you change your browser string and it works. Email them and tell them to not auto kick you because Konqueror/OZ romed Zauruses do work. Yahoo are freeBSD people so they may fix the problem.

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  8. Yahoo! mail by Anonymous+Cowdog · · Score: 2, Informative

    One question -- maybe you've tried this, but just in case not: did you try accessing Yahoo! mail via pg1.yahoo.com/raw

    ?

    1. Re:Yahoo! mail by strredwolf · · Score: 2

      Heh. I wonder how you found out where Yahoo! Mobile was. Thanks (bookmark).

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  9. No worthwhile email client? by RevAaron · · Score: 2

    What's the deal here? Is the original asker just ignorant (not an insult, just a state of mind), or is it that hard to find a decent email client for the Zaurus?

    I'm even more glad I didn't buy a Zaurus to replace my Newton 2100 when I had the impulse to do so, as a platform for running the Dynapad PDA OS/environment (which has an email client already).

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  10. Web by IceFox · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I myself simply use the web itself to profide that. Browse to www.mail2web.com and off you go. No account required.

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