Touchmail

TouchMail is a webmail application designed for iPhone and iPod Touch that enables users to access and manage their different e-mail accounts.
It’s released as open-source software, and provides the access to mail services including Hotmail, Gmail, , AOL Mail, Lycos mail and Netscape.
Technology
TouchMail, being web based, allows the access to e-mail accounts also in a corporate environment wherein there are usually firewalls that, for security reasons, don’t enable the connection to iPhone Mail.
It supports the POP3 and IMAP protocols and is able to interface with the HTTP protocol through the FreePOPs getaway that makes a parsing process between the POP3 and the HTTP used for example by Hotmail.
History
TouchMail was launched during December 2007 to provide a free mail client to iPod Touch and iPhone users. In February 2008: it was included among the web application supported by Apple. It was last updated in March 2008.

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