PicoMail
PicoMail is the first POP/IMAP/SMTP mail client I’ve seen that actually works on iDEN phones. It’s quite full featured with support for secure connections, IMAP folders, viewing Word, Excel, PDF, WordPerfect and image attachments, contact list import (not tested), email search, SPAM filtering and HTML formatted emails which it displays reformatted in a single column with all images and text formatting intact.
PicoMail doesn’t support push email or even polling however, you have to choose “Receive” from the Menu to refresh your Inbox.
I tested it with a Gmail account and it works well. It should also work with other providers which support the IMAP or POP and SMTP protocols like Hotmail, AOL Mail and most ISP and university email servers. It won’t work with free Yahoo Mail accounts as Yahoo doesn’t support POP or IMAP.
PicoMail claims to be able to auto configure the server settings based on your email address but failed to do so for my Gmail account. I had to use the advanced setup screen to get it working for Gmail using the settings found here. Your email provider should have a similar page listing their settings.
PicoMail’s menu structure, at least on iDEN phones, is a bit clumsy and there are some minor usability issues. If you get stuck there’s a good user guide which can be viewed from within the app by choosing Help from the menu.
Composing and sending an email is particularly unintuitive. Here’s how to do it:
- Press the Menu key and click “Send”.
- On the next unlabeled screen, enter the email title and press the soft key labeled “To”.
- On the next screen click a contact (or press the Menu key to add a new contact) and press the softkey labeled “OK”, which takes you back to the title field rather than to the message body.
- Press the Menu key and choose “Text” to enter the message body.
- Press the Menu key and select “Done”
- Press the softkey labeled “Send”.
Type: Ad-supported
Author: PicoWireless
Data Connection Required: Yes
Supported iDEN phones: All with Java ( i9, i856, i776, i465, i290, etc.)
Filesize: 34 KB
Downloading uses paid data. Downloads are for Java ME phones only.
To download and install click here: DOWNLOAD (jad)
can not send gmail by picomail only receive emails
I just setup a gmail account using PicoMail (allowing PicoMail to autoconfigure the gmail account settings for me) and successfully sent an email to a non- gmail account. I would suggest one of the following is causing your problem:
– you have not allowed PicoMail to configure your gmail account settings for you (or you have, then went in and changed the outgoing [SMTP] settings). If so, try removing this account from PicoMail, then adding it again, making sure to allow PicoMail to determine the correct settings for you.
– are you using a non gmail.com email address? If so, please post the domain (googlemail.com, for example). If you are, I can certainly check a test account using this domain to ensure PicoMail is detecting the correct settings.
– ensure you have your account password correct (it should be correct if you’re able to receive email messages on this account). The password is case- sensitive.
Feel free to email [email protected] for followup.
PicoMail 1.6 is now out, lots of new features, including support for free Yahoo! email accounts, zooming and fullsize image viewing, OCR of images (and attachments), more.
Roger’s suggestion of using html for linefeeds worked for three variations of the break tag in Picomail and two of them on the gmail website via Opera Mini.
Also tried Imap; I get ‘No more messages’ even when there’s new mail. POP works, but Gmail is not Archiving POP-downloaded mail like it’s supposed to. (Which worked fine when I was using Eudora on dialup.)
> I cant find a back button to the main menu.
There should be a ‘Back’ button that takes you to the prior display and repeated presses of it will eventually get you back to the main menu. There is no ‘jump right back to main menu right now’ button.
> finding a way to enter Linefeeds the Send function
You could enter for a linefeed and ensure you’re sending the email as HTML (Accounts -> Advanced).
Try that again: Enter “” for a linefeed and ensure you’re sending mail as HTML.
Forum keeps removing my markup, sorry, final try: Enter (the symbols I’m about to describe) less-than-sign, br, forward-slash, greater-than-sign.