BlackBerry® Curve™

[didier9]

My Cox mail account uses different servers for pop and smtp (my personal ISP 1&1 does too).

The mail applet on my Blackberry Curve 8330 with Verizon does not allow to define different servers for pop and smtp, and further, for SSL smtp mail, the port is fixed at 995 and cannot be changed, while Cox (and 1&1) want to use 587 or something like that.

As a result, I can only receive mail with these services.

I also have yahoo mail, which works fine, so I can send mail with it and it is not a life-and-death situation, but I would like to be able to just reply to email sent to my Cox address.

I called Verizon and they said BlackBerry provides the mail access through their servers and the applet, so there is nothing they can do.

Is there a way to set it such that I can not only receive but also send mail through either of these services?

Thanks in advance,

Didier

PS: Other than that, the Curve on Verizon rocks!!! so much better down here than AT&T it's not even funny.

[badcat]

I too have a Verizon Curve and use Cox as my ISP. What I ended up doing was creating a BIS email address, something@vzw.blackberry.net, for instance then I forward all my Cox email to BIS email address. Setting up the forwarding is easy from Cox's web mail page and it works well.

[didier9]

I already use the Cox email address as the destination for several other forwarding email addresses... (for mailing lists)

I guess I could do that, but I use Outlook on my desktop to process my Cox mail and my calendar, and I do not want to lose that.

When you send mail, does it look like it came from your Cox address, or the Blackberry address? and can you get your Blackberry mail on the desktop with Outlook? If so, do you also get a copy of the "Sent" mail on the desktop?

PS1: I am no fan of Outlook, but for better or for worse, I am dependant on the calendar features, and the synchronization of the calendar between Outlook and the Blackberry works really well, so I do not want to lose that, therefore I have to stick with Outlook.

PS2: As I also use Yahoo, I like it that the Yahoo mail client on the Blackberry keeps everything synchronized. Mail sent from the BB shows up on the desktop and reciprocally, and deleted mail is also deleted on both devices. That is a really good implementation, and if it were not for the calendar, I would switch over to Yahoo mail in an instant.

[badcat]

I just have the Cox account forward anything it gets my BB. I also use Outlook for mail, contacts and calendar. All my Cox stuff shows up in Outlook just like you'd expect. I don't bother having any mail I send from my phone sync'd with Outlook. The one problem I do have using this setup is if send myself an email at Cox from the BB, I'll get another one back when Cox forwards it. This is not a big problem for me as my email volume isn't overwhelming. I suppose with a litle work you could comeup with something so you could cc yourself at Cox and create a rule to not forward those back to your BB. I might check into that myself. Mail I send looks like it came from my BB, which again isn't a problem for me. The Yahoo implementation sort of sounds like how Hotmail worked on my Win Mobile phone, which wasn't bad really. Like I said my email volume is at a level where this is working for me but I'm always looking to "tweak" things so I may start playing around a bit.

[didier9]

OK, thank you for the input.

The problem I have with this solution is like the one I have now using yahoo.

There are 2 problems:

1) mailing lists want the mail to come from the account that is subscribed, so if the cox account is subscribed, I can't contribute from the blackberry, and if the blackberry account is subscribed, I don't get my mail in Outlook. Neither is good for me.

2) people who send me mail to the Cox account and get replies from me from the blackberry continue responding to the account that can send from the blackberry (not Cox), and from that point on I do not have that mail on the computer.

The issue of having two copies is no big deal, I just delete the mail I do not need. I would rather have two than none.

Really, Blackberry should modify the email service so that they directly support mail systems like those of Cox and 1&1. I am sure there are others. They should also allow the use of another port for SSL than 995. I have not seen anyone using 995 for SSL.

Until recently, I had a BB provided by my employer, and we had a BES, and that worked really well. I would like to emulate as much of that functionality as possible without having to pay somebody another $10 or $20 a month just for the priviledge of having an account on a private BES server.

Anyway, thanks for the exchange and suggestions.

Didier

[badcat]

No problem. I wish I had a better solution for you. Here's a couple of links on using Blackberry Redirector, which may help with your situation.

http://www.blackberryforums.com/general-9500-series-discussion-storm/174160-storm-outlook-emails-syn...

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=386313&seqNum=3