One year in the making — PSPoste Beta 7. Well maybe not a straight year of development, but it’s been a solid 365+ days since we last saw a PSPoste update, coincidentally from last year’s Canadian thanksgiving weekend to this one.

Beta 7 stems from the original PSPoste team — David, Ben, and Sajeeth — with props to ZX-81 for his iR keyboard/PSPSSH contribution.

PSPoste was the first and remains the only fully functional email client for the PlayStation Portable. Yes, I’m now convinced it’s the one and only. It supports SMTP and POP3 protocols, provides a skinnable user interface, iR keyboard support for PSP Fat owners, as well as other usable input methods for the rest of us.

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Not being an Outlook (or Windows) user, this doesn’t benefit me; however, being an avid PSPoste user, I can see how this will service many of you out there.

O2P_Importer (Outlook to PSPoste) imports Outlook 2000, 2002/XP, 2003, and 2007 contacts to PSPoste — the first & only fully functional email client for the PlayStation Portable. Click here.

O2P_Importer 0.2.1 features:

• Import your contacts emails, phones and address from Outlook to PSPoste.
• Update an existing contacts file.
• Select severals contacts folder.
• Include the contacts that don’t have an email address.
• Preview the generated XML code

Download: O2P_Importer 0.2.1

- source: s3ven’s blog

You must remember David Cummings, Ben Biron, and Sajeeth Cherian’s PSPoste? The only fully functional email client for the PSP — compose, send, receive, and organize emails while hoppin’ around WiFi spots.

So what happens when ZX-81 gets tossed into the developer mix? You guessed it! PSPoste is now compatible with your PSP’s new best friend, the IR keyboard!

Aside from IR keyboard support, nothing else is new. See README-IRKBD.TXT for details. Enjoy!

Download PSPoste 6.1 for:
fw 1.50 | fw 3.XX OE | src code

- source: ZX-81’s web site

Check out the official PSPoste website for project details.

The PSPoste Team has just informed me of their latest release — Beta 6. PSPoste Beta 6 now features support for 2.X+ firmwares, and with that said, WPA encrypted connections will now work! The 1.50 and 2.X+ versions are downloaded separately.

And a quick copy/paste: PSPoste is the first and only fully functional email client for the PSP; supporting both POP and SMTP protocols. Compose, send, receive, and organize all your mail while you’re on the go! Perfect if you’re in area blanketed with free WiFi.

Full Beta 6 change log:

• Support for 2.x+ firmwares, that means WPA connections will now work. Note that only the “Automatic” (DHCP) connections work with the 2.x version. Tested on 3.03 OE-A.
• This means there are 2 versions to choose from when downloading: FW15 and FW2x. If you must have a manually configured connection, use FW15 (that means no WPA). If you’re experiencing crashes on FW2x, try to reproduce them with FW15 version since it’s able to produce more debug info ( crash.log).
• Analog stick navigation now disabled by default. Can be enabled from the Input tab in the Settings window.
• Fixed a bug in the network connection detection that meant the app wouldn’t start because it incorrectly thought no network connections were present.
• A crash.log is now created when the FW15 version crashes with a blue screen. If reporting crashes when running the FW15 version, please attach the crash.log file.

As requested by the team, the download link will land you on the sourceforge project page. Also be sure to check out the official PSPoste site.

Download: PSPoste Beta 6

The PSPoste Team has released Beta 5 of their popular email client.

As I’ve said before, and I’ll say it again, PSPoste is the first and only fully functional email client for the PSP; supporting both POP and SMTP protocols. Compose, send, receive, and organize all your mail while you’re on the go! Perfect if you’re in area blanketed with free WiFi. :)

Beta 5 changes:

• Completely re-wrote the contacts editing window.
• Fix crash when adding a new account.
• Fix crash when going to the compose window from the contacts window when no contacts exist.
• Fix a bug that caused the default “PSPoste Team” contact to be added multiple times.
• Changes to the controls to support the new contacts edit window.

INSTALL/UPGRADE NOTES: unzip the PSPoste_Beta5_FW15.zip file to your PSP/GAME directory. Existing settings, contacts and mail will be preserved.

As requested by the team, the download link below will land you on the sourceforge project page.

Download: PSPoste Beta 5

PSPoste Beta 4 is now up for grabs.

Beta 4 features TrueType font rendering and many other changes:

• Interface and email text now rendered with TrueType Fonts. Thanks to FreeType and the Bookr project for the code.
• Skin and font textures are now swizzled.
• Rendered fonts and skin pngs are now cached in their swizzled state. That means rendering of the .ttf and .png files will only happen the first time the app is launched, subsequent launches/quits will be much quicker.
• We no longer ship with “default” settings and contacts xml files. They will be automatically generated at runtime if they don’t exist. This means users no longer need to backup their settings.xml and contacts.xml files when upgrading.
• Fix a crash and some rendering bugs in CText.

For those who are new, PSPoste is the first (and only) fully functional email (SMTP/POP3) client for the PSP — compose, send, receive, and organize all your mail while you’re on the go!

INSTALL/UPGRADE NOTES: unzip the PSPoste_Beta4_FW15.zip file to your PSP/GAME directory. Existing settings, contacts and mail will be preserved. Simple, huh?

Any questions, comments, bug reports or feature requests can be sent to psposte@gmail.com or visit psposte.org.

Download: PSPoste Beta 4

Its been a few months since we’ve heard from the PSP Poste Team… But now they’re back with a brand new beta for you; well worth the wait I’d say. For those who are new, PSPoste is the first (and only) fully functional email (SMTP/POP3) client for the PSP — compose, send, receive, and organize all your mail while you’re on the go!

What’s new/changed/fixed in Beta 3?

• Support for TLS/SSL: This includes support for mail services like GMail and Yahoo.
• SMTP Authentication: Supports SMTP servers that require authentication (with or without TLS/SSL).
• Support for the Danzeff Keyboard and an analog version of the GUI keyboard.
• Account templates: allows for quick addition of predefined accounts. Supported accounts are currently GMail, Yahoo.com and Yahoo.ca (bring up the context menu in the accounts tab of the settings page – triangle).
• Easier account switching (bring up the context menu from the main window – triangle).
• Completely revamped account settings page.
• Support for account renaming.
• Password control that masks the input.
• Detailed error messages (error shows up in dialog instead of telling the user to open err.log).
• Currently active account now displayed in the main window.
• New checkbox and group box control.
• Auto update from old settings file format.
• HUHelp button moved from analog left to start button.
• Bugfixes in the context menu, CText, tabbed window, contacts edit window, input dialog.

Additional notes:

• using keyboards: There exists 2 keyboard modes for every keyboard we support. The first one is the navigation mode which allows you to navigate around the application. The second one is input mode, which allows you to type text in the input controls. The input mode is activated by pressing the activate control button (X) when a text control is selected. To return to navigation mode, press the start button. The P-Sprint and GUI Keyboards both have an additional mode for moving the cursor while in input mode, this sub-mode is toggled with the triangle button. The on screen keyboards can be moved from the bottom to the top of the screen by pressing the select button and holding down the R-trigger will enable the uppercase characters.
• changes to danzeff: To support cursor positioning using the d-pad in danzeff, the backspace shortcut is now R-trigger + Up and newline is R-trigger + down. The danzeff textures were shrunk to take up less screen real-estate and the keyboard is always translucent.

And finally how to install/upgrade:

• NEW INSTALL: unzip the PSPoste_Beta3_FW15.zip file to your PSP/GAME directory.
• UPGRADE: Make a backup of the existing PSP/GAME/__SCE__PSPoste/Data/SETTINGS.XML file, unzip the PSPoste_Beta3_FW15.zip file to your PSP/GAME directory, replace PSP/GAME/__SCE__PSPoste/Data/SETTINGS.XML with the file just backed up. If you renamed the __SCE__PSPoste directory and want to keep your email, just copy over the __SCE__PSPoste/store directory.

As requested by the author, the download link lands you on the sourceforge project page. Great work guys!

Download: PSPoste Beta 3

The PSPoste Team has just released Beta 2 of their stellar homebrew app, PSPoste! Just to quickly recap, PSPoste is a fully functional mail client supporting both POP3 & SMTP protocols — send, receive, and organize email all from your PSP. Beta 2 fixes many bugs discovered in the previous release:

• Fix the uids file not being written (mail duplication issue)
• Get rid of the “Bentest” icon on the main window
• Fix the hang when the app was exited through the home button during an assert comment. Although whenever such a message is encountered, it’s best to hit triangle to get out of it.
• Fix the crash on startup caused by an empty “reply to” field (any empty fields should no longer cause a crash now)
• Fix an issue where the context menu wasn’t being brought up in the address dialog

If you’re looking for more information on this project, feel free to read our previous PSPoste coverage.

Again, as requested, we will not mirror their releases here — grab ‘em from the Sourceforge project page.

Download: PSPoste Beta 2

Nicely done guys.

Introducing something new for your PSP — PSPoste! PSPoste is the first full fledged email client supporting POP3 & SMTP protocols. You’re able to compose, retrieve, store and view emails from multiple mail servers. The interface is straight forward and easy to use — 3 input methods are available: graphical overlay keyboard, p-sprint or ThinkOutside IrDa keyboard. Keep in mind PSPoste is in the early stages of development so bugs are expected and can be reported/tracked via the sourceforge project page.

Note that PSPoste uses the memory stick to store email, so any crash, loss of power or removal of the memory stick while PSPoste is running could cause corruption and data loss of any data on the memory stick. PSPoste doesn’t currently support deleting mail from the server, so mail shouldn’t be permanently lost, however this is not a guarantee. There also is a current known problem with the settings.xml file; having an empty field will cause the application to crash. This could happen if, for instance, the “Incoming Server Address” is set to nothing from within the application, or if the settings.xml file is edited from outside the application.

As requested by the PSPoste Team we will not mirror their releases here; however, feel free to fetch PSPoste Beta 1 from sourceforge.

Download: PSPoste

Direct any comments / suggestions / feedback here. And be sure to check out the official PSPoste Website.