I have gotten my 7230 up an running with the company's BES server and life is pretty good... Lotus Notes in my hand... cool.

But.... now I've come to realize that I am having to choose between the company, and all my other stuff. My Treo 600 is loaded up to do AIM and MSN w/Verichat, and about a dozen POP3 accounts using SnapperMail. It appears that when I pick BES with the BB, then I rule out doing the POP3 accounts and AIM/MSN. Am I missing something? I had expected to be able to do both, but T-Mobile is telling me my only choice is to forward all my other mail to my corporate Notes account... NOT!!! The whole point is to keep them separate if possible. I surely don't want to route all my non-corporate stuff through their mailbox.

Perhaps I need to buy a 3rd party POP3 client?

How are you all doing this, if you are?

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Two seperate problems:

Corporate e mail is through the BES. Get that working first - T-Mobile should not have anything to do with that. When you install desktop manager select the corporate e mail option.

The BWC is for the POP3 accounts. Use the BWC to gather information from your POP3 accounts and push that to your BB. You should have an icon on the 7230 labeled "Set up Email" (or something like that). Use that to set up your BWC account.

The two are not mutually exclusive

T-Mobile has T-Zones. Use the T-Zones for AIM (I am not an IM expert by any means - I don't personally use it). I am unsure of how to use MSN with the BB.

Attack it as three issues: 1) Corporate e-mail (get set up on the BES) and 2) use BWC for the POP3 and 3) use the T-Zones for AIM

That is where I was given wrong information from T-Mobile I think. They told me more than once that it was BES or POP... not both. You have just proven them wrong, and I just confirmed it. I setup to POP accounts, and life is good.

I already have BES/Notes working pretty well. Unfortunately they just had us upgrade to Notes 6, which is only supported for Mail. So, I can't sync anything else with my desktop... ToDos, Memos, Contacts. This isn't a huge problem, as I'll just use Outlook for that which is what I've been doing. As for Calendar and Mail over the air, they are working great.

I've used a lot of pdaPhones, but this thing is very cool! The size and ergonomics are near perfect, and the way it handles mail is better than I thought it would be. I was setting at my desk and essentially used the BB for all my mail when my laptop was sitting right there. Reason - Push. My laptop is set to replicate when I do it. But by then I had already gotten the message pushed, responded, and deleted it.

Lots to learn though... you have already been a great help.

I tried to setup T-Zones AIM and they don't list the 7230 as an available device. I tried to select one of the others and it failed to load it (from the T-Zones web page). Can anyone confirm that you can actually do AIM on the 7230 this way, with the device configured for BES?

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