[TriLUG] wireless email client

[Jason Tower]

On Monday 13 December 2004 13:32, David Rasch wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:33:54PM -0500, Jason Tower 
<jason at cerient.net> wrote:
> > i have a client who wants to purchase a blackberry or treo to use
> > with their email system, which runs on their linux server (postfix
> > and courier-imap).  does anyone have first-hand experience with
> > this kind of setup?  do those units have good imap and smtp-auth
> > support? they're already using server-side email with an imap
> > client (lookout) in the office and squirrelmail on the outside.
>
> We have a client using a blackberry with our Courier-POP server.  I
> think that the outgoing is done through a separate SMTP relay, as I
> don't remember this being an issue.  The pop3 is setup in a "leave
> mail on server" profile, so that the mail also gets downloaded to a
> traditional email client, and would also work fine with IMAP as
> you've suggested.
>
> David

smtp-auth isn't absolutely necessary if they can relay thru the service 
provider's smtp server, although i like to be able to store their sent 
items.  pop-leave-mail-on-server would probably work, although i have a 
gut feeling that it would result in more problems than a 100% imap 
solution.  plus it wouldn't provide access to folders other than the 
inbox.  thanks for the feedback -

jason