{"id":30,"date":"2008-08-11T18:24:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T01:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bradbushnell.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-08-11T18:24:41","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T01:24:41","slug":"mobile-email-caught-between-the-push-and-the-pull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Mobile email – caught between the push and the pull"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am getting very excited with the up and coming expiration of my existing cell phone contract. \u00a0I will be getting an iPhone. \u00a0My wife will have hers before me since she will qualify for the discounted price of the phone sooner but I anticipate that in the not too distant future I will also share in the experience. \u00a0I currently have an HTC phone running Windows Mobile 5.0. \u00a0I have had various mixed experiences with managing my email through this phone and it has dawned on me that there is a missing service: \u00a0a unified email portal that aggregates multiple addresses into a single account interface. \u00a0A friend pointed out to me Web2Mail and while they do have an aggregation email scheme,\u00a0\u00a0you require getting a whole new email address. \u00a0Also, when you respond to an email address, your reply does not carry the original address from the email. \u00a0For example, a friend emails you at first.last@gmail.com and then you get it on your phone after signing up with Web2Mail<\/a> by them actively syncing to your remote device. \u00a0When you respond to the message,\u00a0it will show as being sent from your first.last@web2mail.com address. \u00a0Bummer. \u00a0There has to be a way through proper account security to alias this functionality to a central account. \u00a0It is the essence of SMTP as a protocol. \u00a0I need to explore why this doesn’t exist as a service: \u00a0Email account aggregation with a robust synchronizing push-based capability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am getting very excited with the up and coming expiration of my existing cell phone contract. \u00a0I will be getting an iPhone. \u00a0My wife will have hers before me since she will qualify for the discounted price of the phone sooner but I anticipate that in the not too distant future I will also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mobile-computing","7":"category-on-the-net","8":"category-technology","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}