Syncless email using SD cards?

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cellochick

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I'm thinking about trying somthing to reduce the number of devices that I need to lug around. That is, to have my active files on an SD card, and to have my PDA, laptop, and desktop use the card.

The first hurdle would be email. The desktop and laptop are running Mozilla, which can be set to use mbox files located almost anywhere. The system that I was checking my email on would use and update the files on the SD card.

Ideally, I'd like to also be able to read email when away from the laptop and desktop, without the forethought needed to redownload or resync. The mail would be on the SD card.

The trick would be getting the PDA (Tunsten T5 for now) to read mbox files off of an SD card. Has anyone here tried this?

-James
 
If you were to save the e-mails to the card as text files, you could use any text-reading app (SiEd, CardTXT, etc.) to read them. If you save them as .html files, maybe Blazer could open them. If you save them as .eml, you might have a harder time... I don't know any Palm OS readers for that format.

SnapperMail and ChatterEmail can read e-mails stored on a SD card, but those e-mails would have to be put there by the app. (What they do is archive e-mails to the card--Snapper at a set time each day, Chatter on the fly.)
 
To followup: I ended up getting a Nokia 770 and have been using sylpheed as an email client. The email files reside on the Nokia 770's memory card, where they can be accessed by the PDA. When at the desktop or laptop, they can be accessed vi USB or moving the card between devices. No syncing is ever needed.
http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/

New email is recieved through my choice of channels (wifi, bluetooth to a cellphone, broadband, etc.). The Nokia was surprisingly easy to connect.

Overall, I'm quite pleased with the 770. The linux-based operating system provides higher performance and flexibility than my T5, even though the device itself is matched in CPU speed and has less memmory. It is what my T5 could have been if it wasn't so busy being a pocket calculator.
 
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