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PRODUCT REVIEW
Keep in touch with One Touch
By S. Fred Green a.k.a. Fredlet

I once went THREE WHOLE DAYS without emailÉbut it wasn't easyÉand it was under duress. Let's put it this way, I'd rather have to watch endless Brady Bunch reruns rather than be without email for more than a week. [There's got to be some middle ground! --DG]

If I'd had the One Touch system set up then, I wouldn't have had to suffer the withdrawals of my email deprivation. JP Systems has created a comprehensive set of PalmPilot apps that lets you connect just about every way known to the modern geek, er, excuse me, the professional connected individual. (Don't think you are kidding me, thoughÉI know your inner geek is struggling to emerge.) Communicator, the email program, has options to use vcards, attachments, filters and a larger download capacity than a lot of other email programs, One Touch Communicator is a powerful option for your PalmPilot.

Having messed around with other email programs, I was pretty much expecting the standard interface inside Communicator. I was surprised to find a more complete interface, like that of my desktop email software. It has the normal area for listing the emails, quick mail checking buttons, pull down menu that allows you to go to the file folders (in, out, personal, business, etc.), a find function and sorting panel rather than just a pared down interface.

Setting up mail accounts are pretty easy, though if you don't already have your Network Panel set, it can be a bit more difficult. Their setup panels are standard email sections: SMTP: Server Address, Your Name, Email Address, POP: POP3 server, Mail server User name and Password. There are also options to leave mail on server as well as an APOP checkbox. It probably took me about 2 minutes to fill in the blanks and get going on my mail.

The main window of Communicator has a few new items I usually don't associate with PalmPilot email: a find command and "Get Headers". The find command searches the folder you are in, so when I look for "aardvark" in the Personal folder, it locates all those many emails with "aardvark" in the text. [For awhile, we had Aardvark Software as a client. You'd be surprised how many emails with "aardvark" we got! --DG] Very spiffy. When you click the Get Headers button, your modem dials out and reads only the titles of the mails on your server. This is especially nice when you have a lot of mail going through your account. Most of the time I am looking for one particular piece of mail and I don't want to spend 10 minutes downloading everything if the mail hasn't yet arrived.


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