FOR THE FIRST TIME in more than 10 years of using mobile email services, my phone has no mail sitting unread or unanswered. The screenshot is proof. I needed some help getting to this historic juncture, starting with my late conversion to IMAP services. I had resisted moving from POP to IMAP because I knew I would lose some mail and that happened four days ago. That's because some of my unread email stretched back for three months. As things turned out, that unread mail concerned things I handled by text or tweet so the unopened email should have been deleted anyway.
The big advantage of IMAP is speed. I normally get 10 headers at a time. Since Spam Assassin kills nearly every piece of unwanted mail, 80% of the stuff I get on my phone concerns student services, start-ups or blog comments. I don't give out my phone's mailbox on any business cards or correspndence. This ensures my mail leads directly to and from events, posts, and curriculum items. Getting these items via IMAP is faster than via POP which means my phone now performs as fast as a Blackberry when handling email. Only now can I fully appreciate the push features that energise my Blackberry friends.
For now, I'm very happy with a three year old Nokia E90, my first Communicator device with nothing rotting in its email queue.
Sent mail2blog using Nokia E90 O2-Typepad service from an empty in-box.
