Chapter 8. Email and PIM

CHAPTER OVERVIEW

  • Basics of Email

  • Introducing Mail4ME

  • Send and Receive Email from a MIDlet

  • The JavaPhone API

  • The PDA Optional Package

  • Commercial Email and PIM Suites

  • Corporate Portal Servers

Email is probably the most widely used application of the Internet. Today’s popular email suites (e.g., Microsoft Outlook) integrate email with PIM applications such as calendar, to-do list, and address book, to further boost productivity. The email and PIM combo suites are the most common tools to access corporate information such as job assignments, collaboration tasks and directories of support personnel. Mobile devices with email and PIM capabilities (e.g., Blackberry handhelds) have been greeted with huge successes in the corporate world. ...

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