Comments on: Exchanging Exchange

By: tychoish

tychoish — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:08:38 +0000

while I think that some measure of server-side-synching is really what we need in email, IMAP is such an annoying protocol, and the implementations of it are really quite annoyingly inconsistent. But if you can find a good combination of tools that work it’s worth it.

Having said that, I’ve been less that impressed with the Remember the Milk, not conceptually and in it’s first impression, but in it’s usability as I’ve tried to use it with desktop clients and phone clients, it just seems to fall down. Miserably.

Best of luck, and if you have any secrets, that would be great.

By: Josh G

Josh G — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:43:44 +0000

I went this route originally, and it certainly works. I sprung for the RTM syncing app, and it was pretty decent.

But I’ve stopped it all entirely, as it just got frustrating that I couldn’t access emails when offline. That frustrated me.

But cloud-computing… I may have another go at it, as I use a desktop, a fully-fledged laptop, my Omnia and numerous other computers at Uni.

Perhaps.

By: GregC

GregC — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:22:57 +0000

Good article. Interesting to see you going back to Google — I remember one of your other posts sometime ago talking about your “Google PDA”.

As an alternative to Live Mesh, have you looked at DropBox or Syncplicity? I use DropBox to sync files between my desktop and laptop. Syncplicity is similar and also syncs with your Google docs. I assume they will run on your netbook ok.

By: Remo

Remo — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:29:21 +0000

Great article Jeff, I will take some time to dive into it while test a T-Mobile branded G1. Thanks !!