[Logicmail-users] A few irksome issues with current LogicMail build

[Kamens, J. <jk...@Ad...>]

Background: I've got LogicMail 1.9.1.202 on a BlackBerry Bold 9000 (AT&T). I'm connecting to my home IMAP server with SSL and sending outbound email to the same server with LOGIN authentication over port 587.

I actually convinced my corporate IT a while back to let me get my IMAP email through AT&T (it took some doing to convince them to activate that feature on my phone), so I haven't been using LogicMail for a while. However, that recently stopped working quite right, and (of course) IT is being difficult about it once again, so I decided I'd give the current dev build of LogicMail another try.

It is a sweet little program! It's nice to see that it's actively developed and maintained, and it has certainly been improved by leaps and bounds since the last time I looked at it.

Having said that (I'm sure you knew this was coming :-), I encountered a few irksome issues in just the first few minutes I was using it...


1.       The DEL key does not delete a message while viewing it. This is such an obvious key binding, especially since it's a standard key binding on the Blackberry email application, that it's somewhat bewildering why it isn't there.

2.       It appears that the only way to refresh the messages in my inbox is to exit from the inbox and re-enter it. I don't know why the app isn't using IDLE to get updates immediately, but notwithstanding that, surely it could poll for new email in the inbox periodically rather than making me do that manually by exiting from and re-entering the folder.

3.       Images in HTML email don't appear to be handled particularly well:

a.       There is no "Get Images" command to fetch all the images in the email.

b.      The "Get Image" command doesn't work, at least not as far as I can tell. If I put my cursor over an undownloaded image and select "Get Image", it doesn't download the image.

c.       One I do "Get Image" as described in the previous point, and then exit the message view back to the folder view and then re-enter the message view on the same message again, the message body is blank, and nothing I do seems to bring it back except completely exiting and restarting LogicMail.

It seems like (1) should be a pretty easy change to make, (3b) and (3c) are bugs which I hope can be reproduced and fixed, (3a) is probably a relatively minor feature to add, and (2) is probably the most difficult to resolve of the issues I've listed. But that's just my guess ;-).

Thanks,

  jik