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8/24/2007

Sprint Mobile Email on a Treo 755p

Filed under: — Mark @ 12:12 pm

Sprint Mobile Email was launched sometime back in November 2006 with a lot of pomp and show but is barely advertised on their website today. It seems to have lost some favor to the VersaMail application that comes bundled with the Treo 755p. However, I find Sprint Mobile Email is better for my purposes. Here is a smallish review of sorts and the strengths and weaknesses that I have found. I would also like to document tips and tricks and hacks for Sprint Mobile Email for posterity. So if you have any good tips for Sprint Mobile Email, please leave a comment here.

You can download Sprint Mobile Email (referred to henceforth as SME) from Sprint’s website under the “Digital Lounge” menu item on http://my.sprint.com after you have logged onto your Sprint account. This is only available if your phone is capable of running Sprint Mobile Email. It is a quick and dirty download and setting up of email accounts is swift. The default setup enables push for the accounts but not scheduled checking of emails. This was supposed to be, I assume, the BlackBerry killer application but the push setup is hit or miss. Frankly, I have yet to get it to work. So though it is a good idea, execution leaves more to be desired. I have GMail setup along with a work account and they both work under SME as expected.

PS: You need unlimited data and/or unlimited text messaging for SME to work. I would be afraid of the data charges if you did not.

Pros:

  • Setting up of emails is a breeze.

  • The application is stable. Large icons for finger clicking helps a lot.

  • Lots of key mappings, including side button mapping for email.

  • On demand checking of email is very simple from keyboard.

  • Navigation within the app is intuitive and fast. Lots of features to purge attachments and such to reduce space usage.

  • Separate emails for separate accounts. I hate mixing of emails.

Cons:

  • Push does not work for me. Some people have said that it takes a while to sync. Mine did not sync, ever.

  • No timed deletion of messages. I wish I could make the emails delete automatically after x days. I missed this in VersaMail as well.

Tips and tricks:

  • Hold down the mail button on your Treo to receive mail or sync with the mail account being viewed.

  • Once you are viewing email for an account, click on the option button to get detailed preferences etc for the account including push setup and scheduled email checking. It took me a while to find this.

  • Go back to the mail listing by clicking on the mail button anywhere in the app.

  • The mail button, clicked once while in mail listing, allows you to switch between mail accounts.

I have gotten so used to SME that I actually use my phone to check email every morning without having to get on my computer. That is perfect for me. I am sure I am missing some quick tips and some cool feature or irritation but I will be sure to post them here. Do you like SME? Have you used it yet?

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  1. I really want to try this on my 755p, but since I’m on a corporate account, and even though it’s free, sprint has posted it like if you are purchasing it. I’ve tried calling Sprint, but it’s like talking to a wall they don’t get what I mean , they don;t even know about the application.
    Anyway if anyone knows a place I can download the Treo 755p version I would appreciate it.
    Thanks
    Tony

    Comment by Tony 9/13/2007 @ 9:48 am

  2. Did you ever get the push feature to work? I’ve been testing it and cannot get the push feature working on my 755p either.

    Comment by Bruce 9/19/2007 @ 10:37 am

  3. Bryce,
    I never could get it to work correctly. I just quit trying since I get too many emails anyways. My research tells me that push works for some accounts such as Yahoo Mail and does not work for others.

    Comment by Mark 9/19/2007 @ 10:42 am

  4. I have a 700p, and have both my work email as well as Gmail setup using IMAP. The PUSH feature works perfect for me. The only problem is I wish you could disable push notifications at night.

    Comment by Jason 11/9/2007 @ 5:27 pm

  5. I am perplexed about the display of my email address in the “from” line. The recipient gets an unfamiliar email address upon receiving a message from me instead of my name. The sprintpcs email address has minimal resemblance to my name and could easing be tossed by the recipient of a message from me becasue he doesn’t know anyone with such an email address. The Sprint Web Site does offer an email SETUP routine that allows you to put alternative information in the “from column” and also gives an alternative “reply to” field that can be filled in that soule presumable send the reply to another address (like my company address). Unfortunately, I have not been able to get these features to work. Has anyone else?

    Comment by Herb Allison 1/25/2008 @ 3:42 pm

  6. I use SME on my 755p exclusively, and I’ve gotten used to it. Here’s a question for you. Every once in a while I get a green or yellow bar showing. It’s along the bottom with the other icons, to the right of the familiar signal strength indicator. Any idea what that bar means?

    Comment by Bobby 3/23/2008 @ 3:11 am

  7. i don’t get detailed preferences by clicking on the option button while reading email. which version are you using?

    Comment by raka 6/3/2008 @ 12:43 pm

  8. I’ve tried it and cannot get it to send email, works fine receiving. I setup Versa Mail with all the same settings and it works fine sends and receives. All I get when sending with SME is error S7122 can’t connect to server. The push feature does work fine, I receive emails on a regular basis, but not much use if I can’t reply to those emails.

    Comment by Gary Laffin 7/11/2008 @ 10:57 am

  9. to get the “push” to work go to preferences then in up right hand corner scroll down to schedule check box for push messages and then it will ask to reset . Boom its that simple

    Comment by Matt 7/27/2008 @ 9:19 pm

  10. Does this sync the calendar? From what I can tell, it does NOT. This is big dropoff from the Business Connection Personal Edition

    Comment by danny 8/11/2008 @ 10:16 pm

  11. now i feel stupid, i JUST got done sending a flamemail to sprint over the removal of the ‘push’ option… it’s now just not on the first page of prefs…. u have to dig down to find it.—snowdizx

    Comment by devon 9/18/2008 @ 7:26 pm

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