SnapperMail 2.0 Public Beta With IMAP Support

Hey, what imap clients are out there? I only know of this one and VersaMail, which I used to love, but have run into too many limitations... like the folder character limitation...

This new IMAP client WORKS with my fastmail.fm account perfectly - and i can select any subfolder to sync with I like! This is the ONLY client to do it successfully and is fully usable.
Has anyone contacted palm about fixing the folder character limitation in Versamail? I tried but never got a reply. If they fixed that issue then Versamail would suit my needs. But otherwise I will have to fork out the cash for snappermail.
Iambic Mail is very buggy and unreliable for IMAP. And all the others seem really limited.

You say the public beta is a good thing, then critique them for it? What's up with that?

Anyway, I agree that the price is higher than I'd like to pay. I have tried a lot of email apps because email is critical to my job, and choose SnapperMail. Still, it was a big chunk for someone with a big family to feed.

Regarding the public beta, it's not really a case of us sorting out the bugs for them. They have their own beta testers that have been sorting things out for months, and God knows how many versions they have been through before this beta was released. I don't how may beta testers they had on their own, but I doubt it would have covered every possible device, configuration, ISP, and server setup. Throwing the beta out to the public winds will reveal whatever did not come to light in earlier testing. I pulled the public beta down and loaded it on my T3. Setup with both firewall protected IMAP accounts and several ISP POP accounts, it has been running fine (can't wait for the manual though!). However, it may not run that smoothly for someone on the beach running a Treo through a Hawaiian ISP to a mail server in China ;)

Also their forums have been ringing with cries of "give us a beta, give us a beta!". So here it is.

plus if you want to upgrade from snappermail 1.9.2. premium to snappermail 2.0 premiu where you get just the memory storage function you have to pay 23 usd or 28 usd if you are from europe.

for that price you cen get another standalone client

btw this beta is VERY buggy, according to many users it destroys attachmens (especialy jpg pictures), it resets devices when autofetch is on, discontinues selection work only on treo 600, memory card storage function doesn't work at all on devices with two storage cards as UX50 and NX series

so if you want rock solid application look elsewhere. plus you can save yourself some money too :-)

e.g. versamail supports ssl/imap/pop3 as does markspace. and you cen get mark/space even for $15 with discount ($30 is original price). for that price you cannot get snappermail lite!

so don't even bother with snappermail 2.0 it's not worth the money. I made that mistake and bought it. but I warn you

e.g. downloading email is VERY slow. and I really mean slow. with snappermail it took me 4 moniutes to download file with 1 MB pdf file. the same took only 40 seconds with clie mail!! (over WiFi with my UX50)
100KB plain text msg took 40 seconds!!

well, so why is clie mail or versamail 3-4 times faster then snappermail ? (ceteris paribus)

Well, I jumped back onto SnapperMail as soon as I saw the beta out with IMAP4 support (which was the only reason I ever went over to other products). Firstly, the product has been extremely stable on my T3, and the [I]only[/I] problems that I've had are more related to my mail server's non-compliant implementation of IMAP4 than anything else, and the Snapper folks have been very responsive and good at correcting those problems.

As far as the speed goes, there is a stark comparison between SnapperMail and other products, but I think that's because Snapper actually [I]synchronizes[/I] IMAP folders, rather than just downloading new messages (which it actually does very quickly if you think about it). I had been messing around with the beta of Agendus Mail, which was really quite fast by comparison, but can't move messages between folders, or even purge deleted messages.

SnapperMail is the first and only Palm e-mail client that gives me what is effectively a wireless remote mailbox. There is almost nothing I can do from my live GroupWise mailbox that I can't do from my PDA with Snapper... I'm willing to live with some of the mail download speed issues for that benefit.

I should mention though that Snapper is actually [I]very[/I] fast on WiFi or BT LAN connections... The only time it seems slow is on a GPRS connection through my cell phone... Again supporting my theory that the performance issues are more connected to a lot of two-way sync traffic than anything else.