I am looking into getting a Blackberry. We have a program at work to give me the connection to our corporate Notes system. So I'm assuming that this will get me what I need in terms of calendar, contacts, and email from Notes. But, I also need to connect to a lot of POP3/SMTP mail servers and get other email. I'd be using it on T-Mobile, by the way... 7230. So, how well does this work. Does all the email show up as just being in different folders, or what? How easy is it to keep things separated? I get about 100+ emails a day in Notes, and about that many from a variety of POP3 servers, so this is very important to me.

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Mike - Been Converged?

you can gather your e-mail buy using the blackberry web client account which comes with buying a blackberry to get your POP3 e-mail. You can get e-mail from 10 different accounts all at once! also it doesn't file it seperatley but it does compress data well, you only get the first 2KB of the message then you can opt to take more, this saves you alot of money unlike any of the handsprings where all the data is sent through so if you get an email you can easily go over your monthly data limit. Blackberry's also automatically retrive your e-mail for you, where others make you go and retrive it.

If your company has BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) than you can have all your conacts and appointments updated wirlessly even when you are away from the office!

If you want any other questions awnsered just post 'em.

Cheers,
Justin Nowak

So are you saying that it dumps all your POP email into one in-basket? Does it dump it together with your corporate email from Notes or Exchange? If so, that would not be good. What I currently do with SnapperMail is have it direct each incoming email account to a different folder. This works pretty nicely and saves me a lot of time. I definitely don't want my Notes mail mixed with POP mail. If it dumps it together, can you possibly set up filing rules like in Outlook? Is the 10 account thing a limit, or did you just mean that in a general sense?

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Mike - Been Converged?

With my service provider it is 10 i am almost sure it is all ths same. Also with the webclient you can set up different folders but they all show up on your blackberry as on continuos string. the files are only for storing on the web client. RIM is trying to come up with something to fix this other than that I think i blackberry is a good choice, this has not bothered me much.

Yes - all of your mail just dumped together. The BB supports only one messages list (Inbox) and all of your BES and BWC e mail gets clumped together. It can get rather confusing. And when you reply, you can choose one of to "reply to" e-mail address - the one defined on your BES/corporate e mail system, and ONE defined on your BWC.

That stinks. I'm not sure that would work for me because of the quantity of email I get, and the need to keep it very much separated. I'll probably try it if I get access to our company BES server anyway though. Who knows, I may end up carrying multiple devices again because I really need to get my Notes mail mobile.

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Mike - Been Converged?

I am sure you will like it anyway!! they are great devices.

We'll see. I really like the Treo 600 in a lot of ways, but in many other ways I don't like it. I'm partial to some parts of Pocket PC, some parts of Palm, and now maybe some parts of the Blackberry. What's a geek to do?

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Mike - Been Converged?

The geeks shall inherit the earth. For mail I love my BlackBerry. It is also my primary cell phone since I always carry it. I like the Treo 600 (notice I love the BlackBerry but like the Treo), and the Treo is clearly aimed more at the consumer market, while the BlackBerry is aimed at the business market. Two sets of needs, two devices. Not a lot of games on the BlackBerry, but if you want push corporate e-mail, get a BB

OK, I'm missing something here because I have BES and Notes setup, but T-Mobile is telling me that the only way I can get corporate email is to forward it to my corporate email account... not good.

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Mike - Been Converged?

If you have a BES, you install Desktop Manager (not the redirector), and it should redirect your Notes E Mail over the air to your BB. The BWC does not touch corporate e-mail; it's for POP3 e mail accounts only.

Can someone tell me how to use my blackberry to give a powerpoint presentation at a client site w/o firing up the laptop?

You can't. Simple answer.

You can on the Treo, was hoping to be able to do the same on the BB.

I've come to appreciate the Blackberry for corporate email and PIM stuff, but find it kind of weak for many of the other things that PDAs can do... that being one of them.

I see that more and more companies are licensing the RIM client so it will be interesting to see what happens later this year when devices appear that use it. I got to play with it on a Pocket PC at CTIA and it was very cool.

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Mike - Been Converged?

I wonder if anybody was able to get two services running on the Blackberry at the same time. What we looking for is complete integration with corporate e-mail by BES and in addition separate POP client application to check home e-mail.
Objective is to bypass Exchange server and have access to personal e-mail in own application.
We have lots of application for Palm's but not for the blackberry.

Maybe somebody will become reach by writing something up?!

Lysy

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LYSY

You CAN do both on the BlackBerry. Your BES pushes the corporate e-mail, and the BlackBerry Web Client (BWC) pushes your POP3/personal e-mail. I do that know. BWC collects Yahoo and ISP POP3 e-mail, and BES handles corporate. One solution.