Best Email client for the Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800 – Profimail

by Mobile Jorge on 2:00 pm in Must Reads

Well there has been a lot hype these past few months with Nokia Messaging coming to fruition but if you’ve tried it then you know or you might concur that its a love/hate relationship as its certainly been with me. So what to do, well if you don’t need MS Exchange and a stable IMAP client will suffice, then you definitely have to consider Profimail 3.14(most recent version) by Lonely Cat Games. Profimail brings us a multitude of email choices and configurations to please even the geekiest of the geekiest(that’s me).

With any application that you purchase you should ask yourself the following questions: What are my basic requirements of this application, what do I need it to do 100% reliably. Well since its an email application, the final outcome its quite obvious right, the email needs to simply work all the time. I know some of you out there think well Nokia Messaging is just pretty and its so integrated to the OS and what not and all that is true, I agree, but in the game of true mobile email communications, reliability is king and results do matter at the end of day. So I decided to revisit Profimail which I had purchased about 3-4 months ago and used it for a little while, not really giving it the merit it deserves and then on top of that I also got dissuaded by the pretty colors of Nokia Messaging and all the hype. Mind you, I come from the blackberry world where email is supreme and it always works(99.5% of the time) so naturally I wanted a similar experience with my Nokia phones, my ubiquitous E71 and N95 8GB.

Here are the standard features of Profimail:

Automatic synchronization of messages with the mail server
IMAP folders
Attachments – view, save, send
HTML messages with images and hyperlinks
Built-in File Explorer
Address book
Signatures
Support for POP3 / IMAP / SMTP mail servers
Writing mails using T9 dictionary (if available on phone)
Multiple email accounts
Rules and filters allowing selective message download
Opens and browses ZIP archives
Support for various character encoding – Western, Cyrillic, Central European, and more
Build-in image viewer for JPG, PNG and other popular formats
Text viewer for standard text, HTML and Word documents
Optimized for GPRS – get headers first, then download message bodies which you really want to see
Scheduled message download
Sound notifications

They also have something extra for those hardcore tweakers called “Tweaks” how appropriate right, anyway, Tweaks is a separate download that can be found in the Lonely Cat Forum(here) that adds additional functionality to Profimail. I’ve downloaded the client and its a great install, if you’re a ninja type of person, then you need to go ahead and give this a try.

My Favorite Functions

Shortcuts, Profimail has tons of press key shortcuts to make your life so much easier and greatly improving the usability of the email client.

So if you have not tried Profimail from LCG I highly recommend, its got great support for both s60v3 and s60v5 which the latter includes the Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800. I believe that Profimail provides the ultimate user experience when it comes to email.

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This post was written by Mobile Jorge who has written 486 posts on Nokia Mobile Talk.

10 Responses to “Best Email client for the Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800 – Profimail”

El Marko July 27, 2009 at 12:24 pm #

Good review and very worthy mention of ProfiMail's shortcuts and other features. When Nokia's native messaging client failed – would not save messages to the memory card, etc. – I was very thankful that ProfiMail existed and was so feature-rich. Nokia's messaging client and Nokia Messaging are, in my opinion, examples of Nokia's overall failure to deliver reliable software with their rock-solid hardware. I only wish that Nokia would rework their OS, to allow third party apps to more tightly integrate themselves into the underlying OS. In any case, I've used ProfiMail for several months now, through a few version updates, and have found it to be a consistently satisfying experience. Well worth the cost.

LCG's IM app, called “Slick”, is presently in beta and well worth a look, too, for those interested in a free, but nonetheless very useful, IM client.

And, as long as I'm pitching LCG products, I have to point out that their “Jukebox” is practically the only FP1 Symbian MP3 app I've found that will allow the user to advance into the middle of a track, and start playing. That's a real useful feature, for those of us who listen to podcasts stored on our mobile devices. That capability is yet another easy one that Nokia failed to include, in their native Music Player.
Anonymous July 27, 2009 at 1:41 pm #

sounds it's worth it to try it out, i'll give it a go.
Jorge July 30, 2009 at 12:41 pm #

excellent comment
ryanwoods August 6, 2009 at 7:46 am #

Hi!
On my N97 with the email widget on the homescreen of the phone, its not letting me delete the emails. With I go to the option to delete, then when it comes up with the menu for to delete from the phone or the phone and the server. I click on the second option and the email stays in the inbox.
Franco12 August 14, 2009 at 4:24 am #

@ryanwoods: I don't think Profimail has a homescreen widget yet, does it?
phoneguy December 12, 2009 at 1:18 pm #

It's a waste of money. The inbuilt client works fine on the 5800 with firmware 21.0.025.

How can they sell this without support for S/MIME? That's just ridiculous.
phoneguy December 12, 2009 at 3:18 pm #

It's a waste of money. The inbuilt client works fine on the 5800 with firmware 21.0.025.

How can they sell this without support for S/MIME? That's just ridiculous.
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Max Power April 25, 2010 at 6:33 am #

You forget something important. If you use the Nokia mail client it uses Nokia servers so Nokia reads your email and has your account credentials !
If you use profimail your private data stays private.
Max Power April 25, 2010 at 11:33 am #

You forget something important. If you use the Nokia mail client it uses Nokia servers so Nokia reads your email and has your account credentials !
If you use profimail your private data stays private.