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Originally posted by athreya
Urgent question
I am moving onto the BB from a treo 600 tomorrow. I am going with Cingular/ ATT.
My question is:
1)What do i need todo to:
A) Sync/ push my work email (Lotus) on it?
B) Sync /push my personal email -pop3-on it?
C)Use msn and yahoo chat/ and do browsing
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A. To use the mail service without a hosted Blackberry service you have two choices that are provided by your wireless carrier. You can use the BB Web Client or Desktop Redirector.
Web Client Pros: You can set up multiple personal email accounts. You can check email via http. Using Web Client will allow you to receive attachments.
Web Client Cons: Web Client has storage limits that vary from provider to provider and once full, will stop forwarding mail to your BB device. Mail can take up to 15 minutes or more to be delivered to your device.
The second alternative is Redirector.
Pros: Redirector is generally faster in delivering mail to your BB device.
Cons: Redirector will not forward attachments to your BB device. I requires you to have your desktop computer logged in and running at all times. You can only forward one email account.
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I mean does what we pay the carriers for the data pay for the BES and MDS services?
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You pay for the wireless data/voice connectivity of your hand held device. Wireless service must be activated on the handheld in order to receive data.
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2)My corporate IT department charges $35 every month for providing BES/MDS and for pushing my work email / calenders etc to the BB. Do i still need this?
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No. (What a rip!)
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3)Which public MDS/BES server is the best? If i sign up for one of these, will i NOT need to pay my corporate IT deptt to get my work email and calender on my BB?
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I have heard good things about Mailstreet and eOutlook. There is a problem using these hosted MDS/BES services if you receive corporate mail through your company. The domain of your company mail would have to point to the hosted BES's servers. For example, if you worked for IBM and had an email address of
joe@ibm.com, then the ibm.com domain would have to point to the 3rd parties hosting servers. I'm sure your company would not be willing to do that. Services like these are best suited for the individuals and/or self employeed that do not have coporate mail servers. You may be better off just paying the $35 per month to your IT department for the service unless you are going to branch out on your own.
I believe that the information I have provided is accurate. However, I've not had any experiance with a 3rd party hosting service and only used the Redirector and Web Client options for a short time. So if anyone knows differently, pleaes don't hesitate to correct my mistakes. I wasted no time in getting my company to allow me to install a BES server in our network. Ultimately, using BES is the only way to use your BB device to it's maximum potential. The second best is obviously using BES through a 3rd party. As for Web Client and Redirector, you'll just have to try either and decide which suits you best.
Good luck.