[Dovecot] Help! OT: Blackberry IMAP client suggestions/experience needed

Knute Johnson knute at frazmtn.com
Thu Mar 13 18:31:12 EET 2008


>The CFO of our college, a most formidable man, had decided to go Blackberry and 
>Something Functional Must Be Done.  We've had some users who we've not supported 
>(and things got better for them when we switched from UWIMAP to Dovecot).
>
>BB, of course, has their half-baked sorta-IMAP-compliant client (and we do NOT 
>want the BB Enterprise Server) that persistently keeps grabbing the mailbox and 
>breaking the mailbox lock, causing no end of grief for the secretaries (plural, 
>more than one) would also work with the mailbox.
>1) Does anyone have recommendations and experience with a genuine BB IMAP 
>client?  Googling shows up LogicMail....
>2) I have been avoiding the plunge in multiple-access mailbox and just let the 
>early BB adapter users thrash but I suppose it is time to do what I can with DC.
>We are running 1.0.12 with mbox format.  Would some kind person <grovel,grovel> 
>tell me where I should start reading plus any warnings.  BB DC experience info 
>would be a big help.
>
>Our CFO has a legendary temper and I would like to get as much as possible right 
>the first time out...........

My wife has a Blackberry Curve, 8310 (ATT version).  I'm running my 
mailserver on Fedora 8 and the Dovecot is version dovecot-1.0.10-
4.fc8.  She is using the built-in IMAP client with SSL and it works 
just fine.

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Knute Johnson
Molon Labe...




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