Cannot get Blackberry Pearl to do my bidding

First of all, know that I've never used a BB before, so am starting
cold here.

Picked up the Pearl today, and would like to use my USA.NET mail
server ot process mail on the BB. I am this problem: I can access
the USA.NET mail server ok. I get a prompt on the BB that says
"Welcome to net@ddress" and it has a link that says "Enter." So I
select Enter.

A lot of data seems to be flying back and forth, but about 75% of the
time, it returns to the Enter prompt - the other 25% of the time I get
a prompt showing how many email messages are unread. If I click that
link ("Inbox (32 new)"), about 75% of the time I'm taken back to the
"Enter" prompt - the rest of the time I'll get a list of the unread
mail items. If I click on one of those, I may, or may not, get to see
the text of the message - more often than not, I'm returned to the
"Enter" page and prompt. But if I *do* get to read the message, I'd
like to reply to it. There are three prompts at the bottom of the
read screen - one says "Respond." If I click on that link, I get
another where one of the choices is "Reply." If I choose that, I get
a blank screen with a mouse arrow pointer on it. I can scroll the
pointer around (and it seems locked to the lefthand border of the
screen - it only moves vertically, not horizontally), but I can't
enter any text. I have to ESCAPE to get out of that screen.

Does any of this sound familiar? Any ideas as to what might be
wrong? OPerator error, perhaps?

Thanks.

Dave <david.f.jenkins@usa.net> wrote:

> First of all, know that I've never used a BB before, so am starting
> cold here.
>
> Picked up the Pearl today, and would like to use my USA.NET mail
> server ot process mail on the BB. I am this problem: I can access
> the USA.NET mail server ok. I get a prompt on the BB that says
> "Welcome to net@ddress" and it has a link that says "Enter." So I
> select Enter.
>
> A lot of data seems to be flying back and forth, but about 75% of the
> time, it returns to the Enter prompt - the other 25% of the time I get
> a prompt showing how many email messages are unread. If I click that
> link ("Inbox (32 new)"), about 75% of the time I'm taken back to the
> "Enter" prompt - the rest of the time I'll get a list of the unread
> mail items. If I click on one of those, I may, or may not, get to see
> the text of the message - more often than not, I'm returned to the
> "Enter" page and prompt. But if I *do* get to read the message, I'd
> like to reply to it. There are three prompts at the bottom of the
> read screen - one says "Respond." If I click on that link, I get
> another where one of the choices is "Reply." If I choose that, I get
> a blank screen with a mouse arrow pointer on it. I can scroll the
> pointer around (and it seems locked to the lefthand border of the
> screen - it only moves vertically, not horizontally), but I can't
> enter any text. I have to ESCAPE to get out of that screen.
>
> Does any of this sound familiar? Any ideas as to what might be
> wrong? OPerator error, perhaps?

get an iPhone, they are much easier to deal with. The Blackberry really
isn't what you want for mail.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

On 2007-11-11, Mark Thompson <markt@earthlink.net> wrote:

> get an iPhone, they are much easier to deal with. The Blackberry really
> isn't what you want for mail.
>
> http://www.apple.com/iphone/

You're an idiot. Unless you can find and iPhone that will run on Verizon's
CDMA network.

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Steve Sobol wrote:
> On 2007-11-11, Mark Thompson <markt@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> get an iPhone, they are much easier to deal with. The Blackberry really
>> isn't what you want for mail.
>>
>> http://www.apple.com/iphone/
>
> You're an idiot. Unless you can find and iPhone that will run on Verizon's
> CDMA network.

Maybe he knows a really, really good hacking site.

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Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:

> On 2007-11-11, Mark Thompson <markt@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> get an iPhone, they are much easier to deal with. The Blackberry
>> really isn't what you want for mail.

> You're an idiot.

I don't think so, I think he's a spammer. I prefer idiots, personally.





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