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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. Gmail has this feature by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Gmail can run without being installed into a pc.

    1. Re:Gmail has this feature by Bambi+Dee · · Score: 2, Insightful

      True, but Gmail won't handle several different POP, IMAP, NNTP and RSS accounts/feeds in a single, drag-and-drop-capable, somewhat customisable interface (if I'm not mistaken)...

  2. The Future Looks Good by Bad+to+the+Ben · · Score: 4, Insightful
    For those of you particularly worried about privacy (like me), I found this in the FAQ:
    To make Mobility more secure, we'd like to develop a system log-in application that encrypts your profile and email until you enter a password (as you can imagine, this would make losing your USB key with Mobility Email on it less of a problem).

    That's an excellent idea. USB keys are so easy to lose, I don't like the idea of carrying around a whole bundle of potentially compromising emails on them. I think I'll be waiting for this functionality before I start using it, but so far I like the direction the team is taking.
    1. Re:The Future Looks Good by Taladar · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The easiest example are password reminders. You don't want to change all your password when losing your USB stick (or even worse have them changed for you by the finder).

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  3. Re:Or just the old fashioned way ... by Hurricane78 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, then tell me where to find an internet cafe or a default home user pc with an ssh client installed...

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  4. Re:Or just the old fashioned way ... by alan.briolat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I never said command lines were unusable - I have 3 computers that don't even have a GUI installed. I prefer command lines for most things. However, when it comes to the uses some people put things like vi(m) to, its just plain jumping through hoops trying to get anything done.

    But then again, its all a matter of opinion. I've tried vi, vim, emacs, etc, and my opinion is that I prefer to spend a higher percentage of my time working within the interface, not with the interface. But if it truly works for you, good.

    And your generalisation about 'GUI people' is as bad as mine about 'vim users'. Yeah, so what, I like to use something with a graphical interface. It doesn't have to be pretty or bloated though. Just easy to use. Intuitive. Where is the intuition in using 'vi' ? Lets face it, vi(m) will always remain a small percentage, because the interface yells "RTFM" at people who just want to get one with some plain ol' text editing. Although I don't deny its power, there are much easier ways of doing the same thing.

    Now to wait for a vi-weilding moderator to come mod this as Troll...

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  5. quotes from the website by moosesocks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Mobility Email is the hottest email product in the world."

    "The best thing about Mobility Email is that it's totally mobile. "

    "Simply plug your USB key into any Windows computer in the world and boom."

    These guys have a remarkable talent for overstatement, redundancy, and frightening users.

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