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Ed W said the following on 14/09/08 19:49:

Does anyone have any notes or recommendations on getting a (UK) Blackberry to talk effectively to a normal Dovecot server, and are there any things to consider in order to get whatever features they are normally using on their Exchange link working on the Dovecot server? (It's just a small couple of person office on an Exchange server)

I have two installations of Dovecot with BlackBerry users, not with BlackBerry Exchange Service (BES), but with a standard mail account at RIM.

Those customers have an account at RIM; with this kinf of account you set up a username, a mail server a password and a protocol (IMAP/POP). RIM periodically polls the server, downloads a copy of the email and pushes it to BlackBerry phone.

In one installation the main mail server is connected to Internet, so the customer simply configures RIM settings as a normal mail client.

Another customer has an internal Notes server and a Linux acting as smart relay and mail filter. In this case, I configured a mail account on the border Linux and told Notes to forward a copy of every incoming mail for a specific user to the account configured on the Linux server (running Dovecot, of course). Then I configured the account on RIM website to poll the Linux.

So either you publish the IMAP (or POP) port of your Exchange server to Internet, or you set up an Incoming Mail Rule (and store it on Exchange Server using Outlook) to forward the mail to an account you create on a Linux server connected to Internet (better not to forward business mail to public service like Yahoo, Gmail, and so on).

Ciao, luigi

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