06/13/2005: "QMAIL 3 - configuring an IMAP mailbox"
For those who don't already know, QMAIL 3 (actually it's at version 2.9.14.2072 right now) is an incredibly full featured mail client for PPCs. In fact not only does it handle your regular POP & IMAP mailboxes with ease it also eats Usenet news (NNTP) and even RSS feeds for breakfast! And best of all it's free. Kiss goodbye to the decrepit Pocket Outlook (unless you're unfortunate enough to be tied to a Windoze desktop and have to sync to the desktop Outlook).
It's unfortunate that the author chose to name the program QMAIL as that name conflicts with the qmail MTA (note the lower case). However not knowing the history of QMAIL I've no idea who first used the name.
Anyway, to make the most of QMAIL you have to get past it's idiosyncratic interface. Configuring an IMAP mailbox had me stumped for a couple of days. It looked easy - just fill in the boxes then click on "Send Receive" or "Receive" and you can see your mail flooding in. The real problem comes when you try to send an email using your newly IMAP account, basically you can't until you perform a few more steps:
- tap on the account name in the folder list to select it - tap & hold on the account name then select Create...
- in the dialog that appears set the name to Outbox, type to Local Folder then OK
- repeat procedure to create a folder called Sent - tap on the Outbox folder in the folder list to select it - tap & hold on the Outbox folder then select Property... - in the dialog that appears change the "Box Type" to Outbox
- repeat procedure for the Sent folder (obviously setting it to box type Sentbox)
