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11/9/2009 1:24 PM 

Picked up the new Droid phone this weekend on Pete D's advice. We have the same picky taste in phones. I.e. iPhone was a cool idea, but no physical keyboard sucks (I touch type... and write a LOT of long emails), AT&T sucks (Duh, bad), Apple sucks (yes, I'm still pissed about the screwing they gave us on the Apple IIGS and shall remain so forever), no tethering sucks (I do this a lot too when on the road, some emails/docs just can't be typed on a phone), no I don't want jail break crap. Battery always worries me, because I use my phone a LOT for business and personal, so I'm always cranking away when I'm out of the house, but I figured I'd give it a shot because my Moto Q has reached the end of its' useful life for me. The Droid solved all but the tethering problem on day one and that's coming in January, so I can live until then.

One of my big dilemas, albeit not nearly big enough to stop me from buying it, was accessing my hosted email accounts (here and others). I host them on Live Mail, which is totally kick ass because then I don't have to deal with some crappy POP3 provider and they have great SPAM and Virus filtering. Again, things that I don't want to have to deal with, but I don't have enough accounts to subscribe to a paid server, so Live Mail was a great find. The knock that I had on them was the lack of free POP3, because like other providers, they wanted to charge me per domain/account every month. Made my hosting fees look cheap and again, I don't have the volume to justify the costs. Microsoft did release a plug-in for Outlook that allowed connections to Live Mail accounts, but what to do about an Android client?

Turns out that somehow I missed this post earlier in the year. Live Mail went POP3 for FREE. Woo hoo! Here is the link to the config pages. It works like a champ from the Droid. Note: use TLS for the SMTP security. My next step is to figure out how to do push with it. I'm thinking that I may have to link the POP3 accounts into GMail... Hmm, I'll let you know. Until then, I can live with my personal email polling every 15 minutes.

http://windowslivehelp.com/solutions/settings/archive/2009/01/06/send-and-receive-windows-live-hotmail-emails-from-a-mail-client.aspx

Also, apps are on the way... email any ideas.

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