I have been a avid Windows Mobile 6 user for a long time, although WM6 is not perfect it did the job but was slow and prone to errors.
I decided yesterday to shift to blackberry, reading all the rave reviews i thought it should be exactly what i need.
Firstly, I am a single user, and use Outlook 2003 at work, without exchange or without the blackberry Enterprise Server
The sales man told me that I dont need the enterprise server and can either use blackberry internet service provided by my carrier or use the redirector.
Setting up the BB was easy using the internet service which was provided by the carrier, I have 3 email accounts and all the emails started to come through and all seem well. Then I thought about my sent items. When I send an email from my BB they dont show up on my sent box in outlook.. Also any emails that i read on my BB, dont show up as read on my desktop, i guess this is becuase there is no syncing involved anywhere.
Time to try the blackberry desktop redirector. It seems to be sending chunks of emailing message to my blackberry with the message " This message is used to carry data between the blackberry handheld and an associated server.." yada yada yada... -- what is it actually doing?
I have got about 20 of these message, but don't see any changes... i haven't deleted them, but i haven't seen much difference between the internet servie.
The only difference I see is when using the redirector :
- Only one email for one email address is comming through, the black berry server seems to have stop working for my other email addresss. Is this becuase the redirect only works with the outlook profile and doesn't understand or care about the number of email accounts you have within that profile?
- When I send an email form the bb it shows up in my desktop outlook INBOX as oppose to the outbox
(which is not exactly perfect, but i can set a rule so that it moves to the sent items folder)
The problem with the redirector is that is uses the outlook profile, so even if the outlook profile has 5 email accounts, all messages are sent to the blackberry under one email account. Which is a big problem.
So what is my solution?
I am also unhappy as to how the blackberry stores the messages, it doesn't have a sent box for email! thats just nuts... if ur sending 40 messages a day on your blackberry and all of them are being stored in the main "inbox" folder, its so chaotic. Agreed that the icon is different from incomming and sent messaging, but a different folder for each would be much better. Just like how its done on WM6
After all this i now find out that i could have got the same service on my WM device using Blackberry Connect..
Please guys, let me know if im totoally wrong on the blackberry, or if their are other solutions to solving the above problems in my scenario.
Thanks.
