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Background and Business Requirement
ICE is among the premier IMAP4 compliant e-mail clients designed for handheld devices based on the Windows CE platform. Designed to offer e-mail functionality over handheld PC’s, this solution provides all necessary and essential mail functionalities.

  Solution Featureset:
The e-mail client has a feature set comparable to any desktop based IMAP client, designed for the resource constraints that H/PC based applications need to work with. It is fully compliant with IMAP4 and IMAP4 Rev1 protocols.
It allows you to read and respond to messages located on a remote server, without downloading the same.
Supports server-based folder management.
Allows to you save settings to access multiple IMAP accounts.
Allows you to set default start folders.
Supports limited off-line access to read messages.
Allows user to use system contact database.
Allows one to send and receive MIME compliant messages. Supports SMTP and E-SMTP compliant servers to send e-mail.
Supports attachments while sending and receiving messages.
Unicode support to allow localization.
 

Achievements:

IMAP is a complex protocol, it was a challenge to design the transport implementation and test it across a wide spectrum of available IMAP servers. A team of three very talented developers and a QA engineer worked on this project for a period of 8-9 months.
   
Technology Used
  Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is an advanced e-mail protocol that is defined partly to overcome limitations of POP3 and also to offer server-based storage/sharing and searching of message store. ICE required complete implementation of IMAP.
  TCP/IP programming.
  Windows CE C++ SDK.
  SMTP.
  MIME encoding and decoding.
   
 
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