Challenged by Pocket Mail

I RUN A LIGHTWEIGHT email client on my Nokia E90 (at left, shot last year with no email burden evident) and occasionally test other messaging applications that involve email. After an abortive attempt to push my mail to my phone via Nokia Messaging early this year, I removed the application but a troublesome artefact remained. I had at least 20 MB of mail  headers that remained on my mail server and instead of purging any of the old stuff, Squirrel Mail kept the old headers intact and sometimes duplicated them. The 20 MB in February became 85 MB in July. This meant my phone had to flick through hundreds of mail headers before updating my local phone's email system. All that time equated to data on O2-Ireland and more critically, those mailbox updates really killed me while roaming in the States a few months ago. The Helpdesk staff at Well.com asked me to purge my headers. When I told them to kill all remnants on the mail server, my mailbox suddenly went to zero, taking with it a dozen unopened emails. I don't remember where most of them originated. But I trust that anyone who really wants to contact me urgently knows that I have more than one way of answering a question. There's Twitter, for example. Or Facebook for fun, LinkedIn for business. Or a comment to this blog. All of those channels have proven more effective than email in my current life.

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