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Its the kind of app that is so good, you buy a Treo so you can use it! This is how much I think of this app! This email application is so feature rich, that the guy who developed this app got hired by Palm and now they sell it on their web site! If you have access to "IMAP" protocol you can experience true "push" email! Don't have IMAP? POP3 works just fine! Say, you have several emails that you need to keep up with? Chatter handles them with ease! And one of the best ways Chatter handles them is with ease is by a Summary Screen! 
Chatteremail really makes email "mobile". Currently I have four IMAP accounts, and two POP3 accounts set up on my Treo. The IMAP are always connected, and the POP3 are set to check mail at certain intervals. And each of these accounts, have their own ringtone/vibration so when mail comes in to my Treo, I know which account got mail without even looking! But when I do, its color-coded so I can easily tell which account has mail. So just how fast is Chatter on a Treo? You send it and it normally hits my Treo in under 30 seconds! Most of the time, its on my Treo before it makes it to my Outlook account on my laptop! But what really makes this app so nice with IMAP is the fact that I can delete it on my Treo, and it deletes on my email server. Or I can move it to another folder on my Treo and it moves it to that folder on my Server! I can totally manage all of my email right from my Treo! I respond to email often from my Treo and although long responses get my laptop node, I have found the Treo to be what I rely upon to keep up with my email. Below is a specific list of features that Chatteremail has: - Continuously updated email when using IMAP servers that support IDLE
- Timed or manual "QuickSync"
- Quick Setup wizard for the most popular email services including: Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Earthlink, Oracle OnDemand
- Full POP3 server support
- Up to 7 online mailboxes
- Up to 128 active mailboxes supported
- Innovative, color-coded "Summary" Mailbox
- Addressees auto-complete from your Contacts
- Addressees from recently used addresses
- Syncs of sent messages back to IMAP server
- Background and "while asleep" operation
- Asynchronous operation
- Wide range of notification options
- SSL support (foreground AND background)
- SD card support for mailbox data
- Password security for extra protection
- Multiple message selection (delete, move, mark)
Now what makes Chatter really shine is the fact that it is built to take advantage of IMAP protocol! If you have never experienced IMAP, you really don't know what your missing! There are so many things you can do with IMAP that POP3 isn't even capable of! This from Palm's Chatteremail web site: Advantages of IMAP - IMAP is far, far faster than POP3 and uses far less data; this is particularly true for large mailboxes. For example, just determining which messages need to be downloaded and/or deleted in a POP3 mailbox with 1000 messages would typically require 100k of data to be transferred; with IMAP, this would be closer to 8K. Also, loading, say the first 5 lines of an email would typically take 5x or more as much data as with IMAP. Doing a "load more" of a POP3 message requires 1) a full sync—the part that takes 100k for a 1000 message mailbox, plus 2) reloading everything in the message from prior to the "load more". With IMAP, only the "more" part gets loaded; this is a HUGE savings.
- IMAP is far, far more efficient at dealing with attachments. To even determine whether attachments exist, the entire message must be loaded (a horrible example would be the case of a 1k attachment following a 1MB attachment; in POP3, you wouldn't even know the 1k attachment existed until reading the entire 1MB attachment). In IMAP, attachments are known completely at the outset and each can be loaded independently.
- IMAP keeps state information on messages—replied, seen, flagged; none of this is possible on POP3. Read a message on your Treo and it appears read in Outlook back at home, or in the office.
- IMAP allows unlimited nested folders that appear on every client; in POP3, folders are local—messages "filed" in this way on one device can't be seen on any other device.
- IMAP allows true push operation; POP3 does not. (Most IMAP servers support this, including AOL/AIM)
- IMAP allows mailboxes to be completely sync'ed, so that changes made on one device are reflected on the other; no more worries about "where" a message lives (this is akin to webmail). With POP3, it's hard to know whether a message read on one device will even be available to another device (especially with Gmail!).
- IMAP allows sent mail to be uploaded back to the server, so you can keep your sent mail in one place; POP has no such facility.
- IMAP is relatively inexpensive, $20/yr or less in many cases. Some are "free", like AIM.
- Most POP3 accounts allow forwarding to IMAP
- IMAP is supported by all major PC/Mac clients—Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Mac Mail, Entourage, Pine, etc...
The bottom line: You will not find a better email app for any smartphone out there than what Chatter offers! That goes for WM06 Phones, and yes, even with an iphone! If email is important to you, you need to check out Chatter! There are a lot of apps I like on my Treo! This is one that I can't live without! Let me leave you with some additional screen shots! 
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