[Zope] Browse E-mail with Zope and WAP/WML

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Hi All,

I've been playing around with the emil email client to provide e-mail access 
and reading via WAP/WML. Yes I know it has been unmaintained for a while 
(2002), but 0.6.1 seems to work fine with Zope 2.6. If anyone has any better 
suggestions, please feel free to share them. If not, I'll be looking into 
this more closely over the next few weeks and months.

I've been playing around with e-mail access and this product for myself and 
for a client, not least because it provides a way of getting around the 
ludicrous restrictions UK (although not restricted to) mobile providers 
insist on putting on access to e-mail from your mobile phone.

<potentially_useful_background_info>
If anyone is interested, with providers such as O2 you cannot use the built in 
phone client that comes with many phones on the various Pay as You Go 
Tariffs. On those providers that do, you are restricted to signing up for an 
e-mail address with *them*, and even on the (ludicrously) expensive business 
options you are forced to send all mail through *their* smtp servers. If you 
are in a corporate environment and you manage your own e-mail, this isn't 
really an option. The providers try and insult you with all sorts of reasons 
as to why this is the case, but I think we can all guess.
</potentially_useful_background_info>

That aside, I've noticed an odd problem with login access to some DTML WML 
based documents for viewing on a mobile. I've been experimenting with a Sony 
Ericsson T630, and when I go to the main_wml page for viewing and put in the 
appropriate username and password it then continually asks me for them and 
then refuses to show it. Viewing it on a normal desktop browser such as 
Firefox or Konqueror is absolutely fine, and viewing on the mobile without 
authentication works fine, but this is of course, not an option.

Has anyone noticed these quirks when working with WAP devices and WML pages 
(it's somewhat new territory for me), and how did you get around them? Any 
hints, general tips and technical pitfalls on using Zope and WAP/WML content 
would also be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

David Legg
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