It had to be done and Vipul Kapadia from Bombay, India has done it. He took the GMail-Mobile code recently released and setup a website for you to use to check your GMail using your WAP phone. I won’t bother to dive into the debate concerning entering your GMail password on a website that sprang into existence a week ago. I also won’t try to reassure you that Vipul is not out to steal your GMail account. I don’t know him. He seems like a nice enough guy in the email exchanges we have had… Use of his site is your decision. In the big scheme of things we do do this all the time - with the GMail notifiers, etc. The only fundamental difference is that you could potentially do a network trace on such local applications while that would be impossible or rather useless in the case of a website since you can’t see what happens to the data on the backend.
Surely there are some good people left in the world? It is simply a shame that we even have to touch upon these points. The world is simply an ugly place sometimes.
With all that said, great idea, great execution.
Source: GMailWireless.com

2 Comments Received
September 17th, 2004 @5:11 am
Hi, I am the author of libgmailer, gmail-lite and gmail-mobile. Just want to say, yes, I can share the same feelings as yours…
I also have some guys telling me that they have setup GMail “proxy” with my projects for the general public… I would never recommend anyone to share password with anyone, but, you know, they sounds like a honest gentleman, and there are yet many many people who do not have web server/failed to setup the program and are very much need the services…
So, it sounds ruthless but I just have to say: I do not know them. I do not know if they might steal your password. Please consider yourself to use it or not, and at your own risk.
Gan.
September 18th, 2004 @3:26 pm
And as the co-author of gmail-mobile, I can’t agree more to you Gan.
You have to understand that using a gmail proxy is like giving your login and password to them…do you really want them to read your mail ?
I guess not. Gmail-mobile is intended for your own server (own=private=secure).
btw, gmail-mobile 0.11 is available on sourceforge (thanks Gan…) : http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmail-mobile/