[From Héctor Arámbula Limón] This week I’m re-implementing all my mobile email assembly. I use a Palm Treo 680, with VersaMail, and even though I’ve read very bad opinions about the latter, it works fine as my mobile email client. I use basically one email account, under POP3, but I’ve registered 6 other accounts just in case. Just in case? OK, I only use one email account for mobile email, mainly for work, but for the eventuality in which I remain away from my laptop for a long time, I can still check my other accounts, that span far more interests and life spheres past occupation. They’re configured under IMAP, in order to keep the smallest memory footprint. Only the main account works in POP so I can have the entire message downloaded and ready to use when offline. To be honest, the hard part of implementing mobile email was not the mobile device, nor all these email accounts, but people. It was rather difficult to kinda train people to use email for work as email for work. I don’t want .ppt attachments about puppies in an account where I have to consider every transference bit. And into a device in which I won’t enjoy of such contents, provided that I do enjoy them at all. Or in moments when my concentration is into work, not into other aspects of life. However, I do admit personal messages into it, as long as they’re SMS-type communications, I mean short, concise, and effective. Mobile email can be a tremendous advantage, but that is accomplished as long as people, myself included, observe a simple communications etiquette.
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