Blackberry questions

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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Jon Pitts wrote:
> 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 was after a pushemail solution, got an e61 on flext tmobile with webnwalk.

I didnt want to use blackberry services, as i wanted to avoid their fees.
The solution i have is mailforexchange, it has been working for me reliably
since christmas.

Mailforexchange is based around Windows Server2003 and Exchange server,
using a process called Exchange Activesync.

It works well, essentially, it syncs my emails, my contacts and my calendar
on a push basis. It doesnt matter if I enter the appointment in my calendar
on my phone or on my outlook 2003 on my desktop, they are always synced. The
appointments is particularly important to me....

Of course for this to work you need to have a pc running windows server 2003
(and a few days to work out how to set it up)...

If you want to save the set up however, you can sign up for the free live
mailbox www.mail2web.com

This allows you to do the same thing for free (with small limitations).....

Gaz

"Gaz" <gazter@msn.com> wrote in message
news:57tep9F2ci5bjU1@mid.individual.net...
> Jon Pitts wrote:
>> 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 was after a pushemail solution, got an e61 on flext tmobile with
> webnwalk.
>
> I didnt want to use blackberry services, as i wanted to avoid their fees.
> The solution i have is mailforexchange, it has been working for me
> reliably since christmas.
>


That may the the slight difference here. I'm very definitely looking at the
E61 as a second device, purely for email. I'm certainly not giving up the
6310i for voice and text - it does it far too well!!

Going down the BIS route lets me do this (the email device can then have a
voice bar for starters), and I'm not paying for a voice bundle that I'd
never use. I did initially look at the BB 7130g, but this seems to fall way
short of the E61 spec-wise.

Thanks for the comments though.

Cheers

Jon.

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Jon Pitts
Email: jon@pitts50.co.uk Attachments: files@pitts50.co.uk