Pop3 Mail Client Hardware

Tracfone.

Have you ever used a search engine?

TracFone doesn't work at sea. Fleet One Inmarsat is used at sea where cell service is unavailable. That is why it is so expensive. Direct phone-to-satellite communications similar to Iridium.

Hi thanks, I am using fleet one for sea only. Afraid to use normal PC with mail client. Hence looking for any simple terminal which can work as mail client. Like Vt100 terminals etc was available for telex etc and looking similar for mail client.

thanks and best regards

K.Parimalam

Have you contacted Inmarsat's support team? They may be able to advise you.

this is the new subscription, while communicating with the sales person I am not able to get this info. Not yet contacted inmarsat services, I will mail them and see. if suppose Fleet one has webmail as part of its web interface should meet my requirement and I will check with them. thanks for your time and attention.

thanks and best regards

K.Parimalam

Sorry I can't help you more, but have you considered possibly purchasing an inexpensive laptop and using that for your dedicated POP3 mail client? 300 bucks or so and probably comparable in price to dedicated hardware I should think.

thanks, laptop with full blown OS I am trying to avoid connecting to it. Hence looking for such terminal even if works out costlier.

thanks and best regards

K.Parimalam

Possibly something like this?

http://progressive.kvh.com/Flash/CommBox/PDFs/DS_CommBox.pdf

Fleet one and KVH are similar hardware. they dont supply any terminal and we should use PC or laptop. I am trying to look if any device customized for email client alone.

thanks and best regards

K.Parimalam

Not exactly a commodity item you're looking for. I've done a number of searches and nothing turns up in the way of a dedicated hardware POP3 client.

May I suggest you pose your question on: http://stackoverflow.com/ Real sharp people there with about 6.5 million members (whereas CR4 is under 100k I think). Someone there can possibly advise you?

Hi Andrew,

I am so thankful to you for taking interest in helping some one in need. Highly appreciated. Sure I will post my question as per your advice. Keep it up.

thanks and best regards

K.Parimalam

He could use the Tracfone for that.

https://sailmail.com/

http://www.globalmarinenet.com/product/xgate/

http://www.stratosglobal.com/products/the%20stratos%20advantage/amosconnect.aspx

http://www.inmarsat.com/support/search-support/

It's a question of synonyms. When you say "hardware with firmware" what you are actually asking for is "microprocessor with operating system and programs in ROM". Now consider whether this is realistic. Just to receive emails and view them? Yes. View them, store them and reply to them? No - not only do you extend the firmware to include word processing software, but you also need RAM/floppy/flash/hard drive memory. That is even before you have software that deals with your specific data in the attachments, but already you are pretty close to specifying a PC.

Of course, you are welcome to write your own operating system and word/data processor to burn to firmware but I doubt any commercial enterprise would find it worth the bother. Instead, I suggest you turn to the route of potential "data leaks". If your Inmarsat connection is a potential route then you are lost anyway. If your putative leak is via the rest of your network then the answer is obvious: you have one special-purpose PC which is never connected to anything except Inmarsat and you never share flash drives between your regular network and your Inmarsat machine.

What you want is to compile your own Linux with only those functions built in.

Disable the CD, flash, usb etc. by not including them in the custom kernel.

It will take a couple of days to do it, but once done, you can duplicate the drive and pop it into whatever other units you have.

You can also do this on RaspberryPi and make it cheap.

Just Google "raspberry Pi custom Linux kernel"