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

[Stewart Dean]

Sure it will in your situation...but when you have more than one client going 
after the mailbox, they'll step on each other's work n vanilla Dovecot.  And in 
this case there are at least 2 and as many as 4 or 5 mail clients all open at 
the same time going after an mbox format inbox.  We originally had some 
Unpleasantness with the unsupported BB users where they left their BBs on at 
home and came to work and found that they would delete stuff and that it would 
then come back (their Macs were set to make deleted stuff disappear from the 
list but not be expunged until they did that....and when the BB popped up from 
its 5 minute nap and checked the mailbox, it would break the lock and invalidate 
the work).  Those user now do an atomic delete with immediate expunge.  And 
their  use was simple compared to the CFO's...would you believe one of his 3 
secretaries uses the Trash folder as a secondary storage area? <shudder>  And 
cannot be talked out of it?

Knute Johnson wrote:
>> 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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Stewart Dean, Unix System Admin, Henderson Computer Resources
Center of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York  12504
sdean at bard.edu  voice: 845-758-7475, fax: 845-758-7035