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Mobility Email reaches Beta 4

Posted by Hemos on from the refining-themselves-more dept.

Shane M Coughlan writes "Mobility Email Beta 4 has now been released. It is the fourth beta release of the portable distribution. It is stable enough for people to use as an every day email client. This version changes a configuration option in Mozilla Thunderbird to prevent crashes with the new in-line spell checker. Mobility Email is a full version of Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5b2 with added OpenPGP and Webmail extensions. It is portable, and can run from a USB drive without being installed on a computer. "

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  1. Re:How is this any better... by Star_Gazer · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't use it but I easily see the advantage. I have 5 different IMAP accounts configured in my mailer. All of those are needed for different purposes. Without my notebook, I have to check five different webmail pages when I am at friends places or at an internet café and I can't send gpg signed mails at all. With this program, I just use the USB port, open the app and voilá - there is my mail.

    A PDA is not an option because it won't work when there is no connectivity for external devices (like in most non-geek homes) and it's much bigger than a USB stick.

  2. Windows Only by 12ahead · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is kind of hard to find on the linked page, but this is Windows only.

  3. Windows and Linux versions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was a tester for this software, and I can tell you that the Windows version is excellent. Smooth UI and generally a joy to use.

    The linux version, unfortunately, is very buggy and pretty much unusable. Hopefully they'll bring the Linux version up to scratch soon.

    Until then, I'd stick to a Windows client for email reading.