Imap email client or browser?

Since someone did not have the forsight to link Opera's mailto function to nintendos built in email client, I am looking for other solutions for my fathers wii. All the guy wants to do is browse craigslist and type a response on the bt wiikeyboard I got him.

Has anyone worked on any of these? (I am currently searching)

What about webmail?

Also, WiiConnect will have POP3 and SMTP support (will be released in a day or so, the gui just needs polished, and it needs to be tested), though IMAP is later on the list.

The wii already has smtp on the system menu screen, so its clearly capable.

Webmail? Pain in the arse logging in all the time.

You would think that IMAP would be higher on the list? No storage required.

:-)

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jsmaster
What about webmail?

Also, WiiConnect will have POP3 and SMTP support (will be released in a day or so, the gui just needs polished, and it needs to be tested), though IMAP is later on the list.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/12/2009 09:22PM by kieranmullen.

POP3 doesn't require storage as well.

Wrong. Pop3 retrieves the email. SMTP sends the mail from client to server or server to server. Pop3 downloads emails within your specifications (last X days worth of messages, last X messages or messages under X size) Imap downloads the headers only you specify (last X days etc) into temporary memory, and downloads messages as you view them.

Think of it this way. When you delete a message using POP3, you are deleting it off your local machine. When you delete a mesage using IMAP you are deleting it right off the server.

[en.wikipedia.org]

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daniel_c_w
POP3 doesn't require storage as well.

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kieranmullen
Wrong. Pop3 retrieves the email. SMTP sends the mail from client to server or server to server. Pop3 downloads emails within your specifications (last X days worth of messages, last X messages or messages under X size) Imap downloads the headers only you specify (last X days etc) into temporary memory, and downloads messages as you view them.

Think of it this way. When you delete a message using POP3, you are deleting it off your local machine. When you delete a mesage using IMAP you are deleting it right off the server.

[en.wikipedia.org]

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daniel_c_w
POP3 doesn't require storage as well.

Wrong. POP3 does not require you to delete downloaded messages from the server, you can just leave them on. Then when you want to delete a message, you could just delete it from the server, that way it won't redownload it.

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kieranmullen
Wrong. Pop3 retrieves the email.(...) Pop3 downloads emails within your specifications (last X days worth of messages, last X messages or messages under X size) Imap downloads the headers only you specify (last X days etc) into temporary memory, and downloads messages as you view them.

POP3 and IMAP are both protocols that allow you to download Emails. Nobody ever said, they have to be stored anywhere.
Both contain ways to only read parts of messages (envelope/headers), download messages, delete messages.
IMAP can do a lot more, of course.

But having non-temporary storage is neither theoretically nor practically required for POP3.


p.s.: you haven't lived until you did POP3 or SMTP by hand :D

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daniel_c_w
p.s.: you haven't lived until you did POP3 or SMTP by hand :D

Haha that's ABSOLUTELY right! That's why IMAP is later on the list. ;-)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/14/2009 04:20AM by jsmaster.

Anyway going back someone should really finish that wiiconnect project I would but i dont know a single thing about C++ and a project like that is not the place to start :(

This topic is well over a year old. Please don't bring back dead topics unless you have something very much worth saying.