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Hi folks,
Anybody had any experience with PocketMail? Is it still around? Where can you get one? Thanks, Bob |
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"Bc8181" wrote in message
Hi folks, Anybody had any experience with PocketMail? Is it still around? Where can you get one? Thanks, Bob Used one for years when I was living in my RV, got a new one when I started boating. Yes, they are not only still around, but got much bigger and are international now. The new ones work on some CellPhones, and when offshore, via satphone. Find out about em at http://www.pocketmail.com/us/ |
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"Bc8181" wrote in message
Hi folks, Anybody had any experience with PocketMail? Is it still around? Where can you get one? Thanks, Bob Used one for years when I was living in my RV, got a new one when I started boating. Yes, they are not only still around, but got much bigger and are international now. The new ones work on some CellPhones, and when offshore, via satphone. Find out about em at http://www.pocketmail.com/us/ |
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"Bc8181" wrote in message Hi folks, Anybody had any experience with PocketMail? Is it still around? Where can you get one? Thanks, Bob Used one for years when I was living in my RV, got a new one when I started boating. Yes, they are not only still around, but got much bigger and are international now. The new ones work on some CellPhones, and when offshore, via satphone. Find out about em at http://www.pocketmail.com/us/ Thanks...will check that site out. |
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"Bc8181" wrote in message Hi folks, Anybody had any experience with PocketMail? Is it still around? Where can you get one? Thanks, Bob Used one for years when I was living in my RV, got a new one when I started boating. Yes, they are not only still around, but got much bigger and are international now. The new ones work on some CellPhones, and when offshore, via satphone. Find out about em at http://www.pocketmail.com/us/ Thanks...will check that site out. |
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I used PocketMail with my PalmPilot in Europe and various places in the US
before cybercafes became prevalent. The service was good, but I had a major problem with them that they could not seem to comprehend at the time. They could not figure out how to leave mail on a POP server. Every message resulted in deletion from the original server. That meant that long messages that I wanted to save could not be saved. I spoke to PocketMail salespeople and technicians repeatedly and told them how it could be done. I might as well have talked to a tree. I finally dropped them and went to Mail2Web.com which was far superior in functionality. I don't know if PocketMail ever solved their problem, but I for one would not use them again under any circumstances. Yes, they were nice, but nice did not cut it when I needed to save messages on the original server. Tom "Bc8181" wrote in message ... Hi folks, Anybody had any experience with PocketMail? Is it still around? Where can you get one? Thanks, Bob |
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I used PocketMail with my PalmPilot in Europe and various places in the US
before cybercafes became prevalent. The service was good, but I had a major problem with them that they could not seem to comprehend at the time. They could not figure out how to leave mail on a POP server. Every message resulted in deletion from the original server. That meant that long messages that I wanted to save could not be saved. I spoke to PocketMail salespeople and technicians repeatedly and told them how it could be done. I might as well have talked to a tree. I finally dropped them and went to Mail2Web.com which was far superior in functionality. I don't know if PocketMail ever solved their problem, but I for one would not use them again under any circumstances. Yes, they were nice, but nice did not cut it when I needed to save messages on the original server. Tom "Bc8181" wrote in message ... Hi folks, Anybody had any experience with PocketMail? Is it still around? Where can you get one? Thanks, Bob |
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"Tom R." wrote: I used PocketMail with my PalmPilot in Europe and various places in the US before cybercafes became prevalent. The service was good, but I had a major problem with them that they could not seem to comprehend at the time. They could not figure out how to leave mail on a POP server. Every message resulted in deletion from the original server. That meant that long messages that I wanted to save could not be saved. I spoke to PocketMail salespeople and technicians repeatedly and told them how it could be done. I might as well have talked to a tree. I finally dropped them and went to Mail2Web.com which was far superior in functionality. I don't know if PocketMail ever solved their problem, but I for one would not use them again under any circumstances. Yes, they were nice, but nice did not cut it when I needed to save messages on the original server. I have the old Sharp PM and it still works, but there are some problems. 1) This particular model works only with an analog phone, and while I have an old bag phone which works very well, there are no packages which allow roaming outside my home area (in my case the Chesapeake), and so I pay 95 cents a minute (or $1.04 in FL with the additional tax) for every call. 2) I can use the bag phone on the boat, but it is really made for using a pay phone with an 800#. I find that pay phones in marinas often do not work well with the pocketmail because there is too much static on the line. Pay phones in a marine environment often do not survive well. 3) There are three ways for pocketmail to get your mail and all have some disadvantages. a) You can change your address to pocketmail and drop other addresses. This has the disadvantage of people who have used the other address not being able to get in touch with you, but has the advantage that spam doesn't follow you. b) You can have pocketmail pick up your email from your main address. This works well, if sometimes slowly and results in the mail being left on the original server but marked 'read'. Also pocketmail cannot pick up mail from AOL. c) You can have your original ISP forward the mail to pocketmail. In this case the mail will be deleted from the original ISP, but it WILL be retained on the pocketmail server until you remove it. Downloading to the pocketmail device does not remove it from the pocketmail server. There are also other issues with pocketmail. I get a lot of spam because I've had my original email address for a long time. So my main ISP has a spam filter. If I have my mail forwarded, it is forwarded without being filtered. Pocketmail has serious glitches with any kind of spam filters. For one thing it has to be done from the pocketmail device and cannot be done from the internet and it takes at least 3 calls to get mail from pocketmail purgatory.. See above for the cost and accessibility issue. That's why currently I have pocketmail pick up the email after the filters of my main ISP have been applied. However, this means that if someone gets caught in the spam filter, I have to wait until I have internet access to deal with it. "Bc8181" wrote in message ... Hi folks, Anybody had any experience with PocketMail? Is it still around? Where can you get one? Thanks, Bob grandma Rosalie |
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"Tom R." wrote: I used PocketMail with my PalmPilot in Europe and various places in the US before cybercafes became prevalent. The service was good, but I had a major problem with them that they could not seem to comprehend at the time. They could not figure out how to leave mail on a POP server. Every message resulted in deletion from the original server. That meant that long messages that I wanted to save could not be saved. I spoke to PocketMail salespeople and technicians repeatedly and told them how it could be done. I might as well have talked to a tree. I finally dropped them and went to Mail2Web.com which was far superior in functionality. I don't know if PocketMail ever solved their problem, but I for one would not use them again under any circumstances. Yes, they were nice, but nice did not cut it when I needed to save messages on the original server. I have the old Sharp PM and it still works, but there are some problems. 1) This particular model works only with an analog phone, and while I have an old bag phone which works very well, there are no packages which allow roaming outside my home area (in my case the Chesapeake), and so I pay 95 cents a minute (or $1.04 in FL with the additional tax) for every call. 2) I can use the bag phone on the boat, but it is really made for using a pay phone with an 800#. I find that pay phones in marinas often do not work well with the pocketmail because there is too much static on the line. Pay phones in a marine environment often do not survive well. 3) There are three ways for pocketmail to get your mail and all have some disadvantages. a) You can change your address to pocketmail and drop other addresses. This has the disadvantage of people who have used the other address not being able to get in touch with you, but has the advantage that spam doesn't follow you. b) You can have pocketmail pick up your email from your main address. This works well, if sometimes slowly and results in the mail being left on the original server but marked 'read'. Also pocketmail cannot pick up mail from AOL. c) You can have your original ISP forward the mail to pocketmail. In this case the mail will be deleted from the original ISP, but it WILL be retained on the pocketmail server until you remove it. Downloading to the pocketmail device does not remove it from the pocketmail server. There are also other issues with pocketmail. I get a lot of spam because I've had my original email address for a long time. So my main ISP has a spam filter. If I have my mail forwarded, it is forwarded without being filtered. Pocketmail has serious glitches with any kind of spam filters. For one thing it has to be done from the pocketmail device and cannot be done from the internet and it takes at least 3 calls to get mail from pocketmail purgatory.. See above for the cost and accessibility issue. That's why currently I have pocketmail pick up the email after the filters of my main ISP have been applied. However, this means that if someone gets caught in the spam filter, I have to wait until I have internet access to deal with it. "Bc8181" wrote in message ... Hi folks, Anybody had any experience with PocketMail? Is it still around? Where can you get one? Thanks, Bob grandma Rosalie |
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