Quick BlackBerry questions

[Steve]

Can BlackBerries interface directly with a corporate IMAP server? No Desktop Redirector (it's not Exchange), no BB Enterprise Server.

Also, what is Web Client? Is it basically the same as reading your Hotmail with Opera Mini as fas as user experience is concerned?

 

[DivideBYZero]

Yep.

http://beyondthebleedingedge.b...t-push-imap-gmail.html

 

[DivideBYZero]

Yep.

http://beyondthebleedingedge.b...t-push-imap-gmail.html

 

[DivideBYZero]

Yep.

http://beyondthebleedingedge.b...t-push-imap-gmail.html

 

[DivideBYZero]

http://beyondthebleedingedge.b...t-push-imap-gmail.html

 

[DivideBYZero]

Oops!

 

[Steve]

Wow, I saw there were five replies and thought "Gee, this forum moves fast!"


So it works for Gmail, will it work for an office with an email server (running MDaemon) for their company email, with no intermediary steps?

 

[DivideBYZero]

The article says it works for any imap.

 

[Steve]

I see. Funny, we couldn't find anything explicity saying it would work so we told an interested client of ours it wouldn't work

 

[Steve]

A shame about that intermediate step though.

 

[DivideBYZero]

It's only gmail that is awkward IMHO.

 

[Steve]

Yeah, but my boss is picky. He'd like it if mail.company.com was pushing email directly to the BB via IMAP. The second step there of doing a BIS login and config he says blows it out of the water, because the email push is then a 2-step process - mail.company.com to BIS, and then BIS to BB. Is he right or off the mark on that?

 

[DivideBYZero]

Yeah, well it doesn't have an IMAP client on it native. What is his problem with BIS? It's pretty much how push mail is done and the reason BB mail is so fast and secure.

Or does he have a boner for the iPhone?

 

[Steve]

I don't think he cares about the iPhone. A client of ours was interested in getting smartphones for email, but he doesn't want there to be an extra point of failure (in case BIS goes down?). He'd rather that if something broke it would be something we could fix.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Well BIS has something like a 99.9% uptime outside of planned outages, which are usually completed at 4am on a Sunday morning. I can't see how you could beat that.

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: Steve
I don't think he cares about the iPhone. A client of ours was interested in getting smartphones for email, but he doesn't want there to be an extra point of failure (in case BIS goes down?). He'd rather that if something broke it would be something we could fix.

I wouldn't worry too much about BIS going down. All Blackberry data, both BIS and BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) goes through RIM's network infrastructure. If that network goes down, so does every single government and corporate blackberry. That isn't to say that there haven't been a few spurts of downtime over the last couple of years, but it's really not anything significant enough to discourage you from getting a blackberry. The way that the data system works is part of the reason as to why the devices are so secure.