Web-based VGA msn/gmail clients ?

[hantoucc]

Hi there,

I've tried for the last few days to have working MSN (Windows live Messenger) and Gmail clients on my Diamond.

After investigations, the problem I have with this is due to the fact that my provider (France - SFR) does not allow msn protocol, as well as pop/imap. As a matter of fact, only HTTP and HTTPS are allowed.

The only way to get these working is to use web-based (HTTP 80) clients.

I've tried ebuddy and some others for msn, as well as the official gmail java client. Both are working, but fonts are very small, since both are designed for QVGA screens.

So here is my question: do you know msn/gmail WEB-based clients with VGA interface for WM ?

Thanks a lot !

[pedmond]

For GMail you can just point your browser to http://m.google.com/mail (http://m.google.com/mail).

I would seriously consider switching to another provider though... Only http? They are living on which planet?

[andrax]

hello

for gmail, opera 9.5 on the diamond is working perfectly, you don't even need to use the mobile version ... (igoogle is also working great by the way)
you can also use the mail2web solution.
I'm in france and with sfr too, I'm transferring all my emai from gmail to my mail2web account, then I use activesync to synchronise with the exchange server of mail2web (which is http...)
I then have all my gmail in outlook (in the touchflo3D interface) it's working great (can even work as push if you setup activesync in always connected... but the battery won't last long)

for msn, web messenger should work great... or we just wait that sfr release the sfr messenger for the diamond...

[Menneisyys]

I've tried ebuddy and some others for msn, as well as the official gmail java client. Both are working, but fonts are very small, since both are designed for QVGA screens.


Yawn... search, search, search... I've explained the solution to this problem at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2426977&postcount=24 :

in a nutshell: double the values of HKCU\Software\JBlend\AMS_Font_Size, VM_Font_Size0, VM_Font_Size1, and VM_Font_Size2

[hantoucc]

Thanks.

@ Menneisyy: I searched a lot before posting, and my question was not about java-based apps only.

@ Andrax: Thanks for the tip, it's quite cool with mail2web. You can't answer with your genuine mail address, though... Don't understand why SFR blocks imap and pop. I tried messenger by sfr (qvga java version): does not seem to work with JBlend, did you try it?

[andrax]

the java machine installed on the diamond is not jblend... so what menneisvy is saying is not working as such...
maybe in his original post he explain which jblend java machine to install ...
let's search search search

[Ximoon]

You can go in the parameters of the gmail client to use a bigger font. It's still not that big, but it helps.
But since it is not designed for VGA and touchscreen, it is not that better than the classic online gmail app (what really bugs me is the first warning about the VM thinking the gmail app is not secure, and still the VM to request confirmation to use data connection, and no way (as far as I know) to tell it it's good once for all).

[buciuman]

For GMail you can just point your browser to http://m.google.com/mail (http://m.google.com/mail).

I would seriously consider switching to another provider though... Only http? They are living on which planet?

Funny cuz in Romania vodafone does the same thing!

[pedmond]

Funny cuz in Romania vodafone does the same thing!

LOL - wouldn't know, I've been on Orange for a lifetime...

[mr.oizo]

hello hantoucc

The gmail java app uses HTTP and HTTPS connectors. So it should work perfectly with SFR restriction.

Cheers

[hantoucc]

The gmail java app uses HTTP and HTTPS connectors. So it should work perfectly with SFR restriction.

I said:

I've tried ebuddy and some others for msn, as well as the official gmail java client. Both are working, but fonts are very small, since both are designed for QVGA screen

Thanks anyway...

[KukurikU]

"palringo" maybe for msn messenger?

[hantoucc]

Palringo works indeed quite fine...