Loading ...Well we just got my wife’s new Palm TX in the mail and I have to say, I see why this thing continually gets 5/5 scores on all the reviews I read (highest rated mainstream PDA on Newegg, Circuit City and Amazon). It’s got this awesome metal/bluish finish to it. I’m browsing the web over Wifi and playing a movie that I have to imagine is the same quality as an iPod video… this thing is slick. I think I am going to find an excuse why I need one too.
But anyway, I was setting up VersaMail to interact with Gmail for my wife and after about an hour of modifying and re-modifying the settings in VersaMail even though they already ship a default profile for “US-Gmail”, I was unable to get it to work.
Then I stumped on ‘PDA Bach‘’s post saying:
In my experience, if you EVER mistype a single wrong character, the account will forever be wrong until you erase it and create a new account.
And I’ll be damned if he wasn’t exactly right. I erased the account, created a new one, entered 2 bits of information and viola, everything works immediately.
Update #1: I almost forgot, you also need VersaMail 2.65 or later because previous versions before that did not support SSL (which Gmail-POP requires).
Update #2: The VersaMail conduit which handles synchronization for your mail does not aparently support SSL, so it will fail fetching your mail, while using VersaMail directly on the Palm will work. This was a bit strange especially since the conduit’s preferences even have settings for SSL, but when you go to run your tests they fail immediately with “SSL not supported”.
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September 22nd, 2006 at 6:37 am
Have you spent any time trying to sync the TX with a Google Calendar?
Erik
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:04 am
Erik,
Great question I didn’t even think about this yet, but after some Googling I ran across this product:
CompanionLink. It was referenced from the PalmSource site as well. I haven’t found a free way to do this yet, but I have to imagine it’s possible.
I also found this page discussing the new feature and some synchronization work going on in the community.
I personally think it may only be a few months before Google rolls out a mobile-synchronization product. Or you can just buy the program linked above I suppose. I’ll keep this updated with what I find.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:23 am
I had seen CompanionLink but was hoping for a free alternative. I don’t use Outlook and would like to move away from Palm Desktop as my calendar app. I already use GMail so I figured moving my calendar to Google Calendar made sense. Maybe I’ll try the CompanionLink demo and see how well it works.
Erik