On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:41:47PM -0700, Mark Haury wrote: > Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > Not nitpicking, but trying to point to a possible resolution: you *do* > > need an active internet connection to receive your mail - so using > > Goo-Docs doesn't sound like you'd be going "out of your way". > > > > ...Which is why I mention it. However, email on mobile devices often doesn't > require a continuous connection - just transfer messages while you're at a > hotspot, then do most of the work offline, then send & receive again when you're > at another hotspot. Once upon a time, that was the way *all* email worked -- with intermittent UUCO connections over telephone lines, and a lot of relaying. > If you've downloaded messages that have attachments you > can't open, you're out of luck if you're on a train or plane or otherwise > without Internet access while you're using the device. Attachments are, I believe, part of the message. It's URLs that point putside the message that would cause problems. The tablet should have a way of putting things on a queue for to be looked at when you do have net connectivity. -- hendrik > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
