iPhone OS 3.0 bug allows deleted emails to rise from the dead
Aug 18, 2009 Technology

Get ready for another big glitch in iPhone OS 3.0: it seems like the Spotlight search cache doesn’t sync message status with the mail client, so you can still pull up old messages with Spotlight if you know the subject line. Yeah, that’s not okay — we just verified that the bug exists on our phones, using both POP and IMAP. We’re not sure when the search cache finally deletes emails, but it doesn’t appear to happen quickly: Matt Janssen, who discovered the bug, says he’s been able to pull up emails three or four months old.
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Tags: allows-deleted, bug, dead, entry, imap, iphoneos3.0, matt janssen
Enhanced Gmail Plug-in for BlackBerry now in beta testing
Jul 7, 2009 Technology

It’s no secret that using Gmail on a BlackBerry is a painful experience — since the built-in mail client has shamefully broken IMAP support, your only real choice is a variant of the same Java-based Gmail app that runs on ancient featurephones, and that rules out direct integration with either contacts or attachments. Yeah, it’s sad, but hope is in the air, as RIM’s apparently beta testing something called the “Enhanced Gmail Plug-in for BlackBerry,” which promises to bring things up to speed
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Tags: Beta, betatest, black, imap, plug in, rim, since-the-built
Make the Palm Pre Archive Instead of Delete Gmail Messages [Gmail Tip]
Jun 8, 2009 Technology

As with the iPhone, the just-released Palm Pre can sync up with a Gmail account, but doesn’t offer a native Archive button.
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Tags: brewster, eat to live, getting-the-pre, imap, ingredients, Power, windows

