Re: [OT] Anyone use a Blackberry?

[John Thomas <gmane-2006-04-16@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Unless you absolutely have to have groupware functionality + shared 
> tasks, shared calender, etc on your blackberry, and want to pay extra 
> for PUSH, it's not necessary to go this route.

Google has a BB app that will sync contacts and calendars to their 
servers.  There are serveral SyncML clients, if my memory serves, that 
will sync to open source products.

> Simply setup an IMAP server, and set your blackberry  to connect to the 
> IMAP server, This is how I do mine, and it work very well.

Further, BB now supports IDLE, which produces "push" type (instant) 
email on IMAP.  Cyrus supports IDLE.  I am not sure about the others.

-- 
Sincerely,
John Thomas
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