I'm thinking of dipping my feet in the world of Blackberry & push e-mail,
and have all but settled on a Nokia E61 on Orange's Blackberry Internet
setup. However, I'm a total newbie to how these things work "technically",
and hoping someone can put me out of my misery (I've had a look over the BB
website and through the PDF manual for the phone, without any joy..

I already access my various mailboxes through POP3, on PC, laptop and
mail2wap on my 6310i. The PC is the "master" copy and is set to delete
everything from the server when it connects, all the others are "read only"
so mails are still there "back at base". I'm under the impression Blackberry
Internet Service uses an IMAP connection to a POP3 box, to "have a copy" of
your mailbox pushed to the handheld, but the "PC via POP3" would remain the
"master" copy if that makes sense.

A couple of the mailboxes I'd want to use on the E61 have a high ratio of
"rubbish" (i.e. stuff I'd have no interest in whilst mobile, but want to
read at home) to mails I'd want mobile access to. The idea of downloading
"headers only" on the phone and then consciously choosing to "pull" them,
would solve this - but does the whole concept of "push" email defeat this?

Lastly, configuring all of this. I could happily configure POP3 or IMAP on a
device blindfolded (well, not quite), but I'm totally new to the Blackberry
concept "technically". Given that Orange don't seem to officially support
BIS on this phone (just "allow" it), and that the Nokia manual seems pretty
well useless, is there an online guide to the basics, anywhere?

Thanks

Jon.

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Jon Pitts
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