Blackberry basic help

[Mark H]

Push - also, it depends how you're using email. I tend to find myself having "conversations" with customers where we might swap emails every couple of minutes. In the good old days we would have talked on the phone, but this suits us better (because you can be dealing with other things at the same time, and you can be anywhere).

Even waiting 5 minutes would lose some of the immediacy (like having to wait 5 minutes for every response in an online chat system). If you don't do this, you probably don't need push.

[guccij]

I suppose I'll still want a copy going to Outlook, as most responses will still be created there.

You can also set it up so you get a copy of every email you send from the BB device to a nominated account. The emails you receive on the handset will appear in your email client regardless.

[Ho Ho Bird]

OK. Vodafone were suitably flexible in their negotiations and new Blackberry Storm in the post, so I need to get serious in understanding how to best set-up my hohobird.com email.

As I said, it is hosted with fasthosts and is a POP3, which I currently grab with Outlook on my desk PC, NOT leaving a copy on the fasthost server.

If I use the POP3 service (as per guccij), do I have to poll the server for messages every x minutes (as duncan). Also, does this method mean that if the message comes to the BB it won't be there to drop onto my PC later?

If I do the forwarding route (which it allows) to say a hotmail address, and I reply to a forwarded message via the blackberry, will it show as coming from my hotmail address, rather than my hohobird address?

Sorry to be asking so much on what must be a common problem, but my best efforts on the vodafone and blackberry forums are not yielding much!

I am getting the Blackberry Internet solution with my plan, if that adds anything to my confusion.

Many thanks

[plantsforshade]

Hi

We use a blackberry storm on vodafone which is very good just watch the battery life (lasts two days just about). Setting up is very straight forward and just follow your instructions very easy and no problem to download from several accounts on different servers, including direct from your actinic account. It only receives a copy and the emails are available for download as per normal. If your outlook account is open and set to auto download only a proportion of the emails will arrive at the BB though, unless you set outlook to leave a copy on your server.

Nigel

[Ho Ho Bird]

Just to close this up for the future. Blackberry storm arrived and is now a permanent addition to my hip. Really really impressed. The email system is so simple it makes by initial questions look daft; but I'm finding it very easy to stay on top of my mails, deciding which one's I'll deal with later on my desk machine.

The BB is actually keeping me away from my desk machine - I used to turn it on several times a day to check for emails and get distracted elsewhere on the web. Seeing the emails as they arrive on my BB means more productive time in my workshop.

Finding the battery life is around 3 days (once I turned down the backlighting which was eating juice). Most impressed overall.

Thanks to those who helped with my initial questions.