Crackberry Storm e-mail

[harsh]

Aside from the Storm being one of the most over-glamorized pagers extant (all the nothingness that is the regular Crackberry without the keyboard), I'm told that one of the things that it is really great at is e-mail.

Acknoledging the fact that it doesn't really do e-mail in the conventional sense, what is the best way to set it up so one can look at one's e-mails? I tried LogicMail and it didn't handle landscape mode (makes typing almost impossible). I'm also mystified by the fact that it has to fetch the mail each time you open the application and if you have no connection, you have no e-mail.

Verizon wouldn't set up my coworker's account for him so I'm stuck having to do it for him.

How do I go about this? Does blackberry.com have to pre-digest e-mails before this thing will show them to you?

I'm ready to "accidentally" drive over this thing so I don't have to deal with it.

[Michael D'Angelo]

I assume it is not trying to be set up on an exchange server, correct?

If not go here (https://bis.na.blackberry.com/html?brand=vzw) and setup an account. This will create a Verizon Blackberry email address.

You can use the Verizon Blackberry email address.

Or

At that point you can add a current email address (or more than one if you want) and the Blackberry will check for new mail every 15 minutes.

Or you can do what I did. I logged into my Comcast account and forwarded all emails to my Blackberry email but I also set my Comcast account to leave a copy on the server so Outlook could still pull from the server. Since Comcast forwards it as soon as it receives it I get it right away since the Blackberry email is just about instant.

The site posted above you can also change the replied from email address. So if you send a new email or reply to an email you will actually be doing it from the Blackberry email address but it will look like it is from whatever email you have so if the other person replies it will go back to that email again.

[harsh]

Thanks much. They don't make it easy and the fact that Verizon wouldn't do it (as they are required to do) had me shaking my head.

Exchange Server is evil. I need to be in control so I'm running a Debian hosted e-mail server.

[lostman72]

E-mail on the BB Storm is great. I have 3 E-mail accounts and each has their own button. I have one account from my company’s exchange server, one from Gmail and one from AOL. I read over 90% of my e-mail on my phone. It’s very fast. I get my mail faster. Once he gets it up I think he will be very happy. On why Verizon would not help, I think the people in most of the stores are sales people and if you call for tech help on the phone I am sure they can help you there. Setting up e-mail on the BB is super easy. It’s in the owner’s manual on how to set it up.

[turey22]

I miss my BB and I heard the Storm will receive emails while your on a phone call when the curve won't. Great phone so i heard but I miss my curve.

[lostman72]

I miss my BB and I heard the Storm will receive emails while your on a phone call when the curve won't. Great phone so i heard but I miss my curve.

Yes it does tell you when e-mails comes in. The storm can be slow from time to time but I think it's a great phone. As time goes on BB and Verizon will come out with fixes to make it faster. I had it for over a month and it's the best phone I have ever had.

[turey22]

Yes it does tell you when e-mails comes in. The storm can be slow from time to time but I think it's a great phone. As time goes on BB and Verizon will come out with fixes to make it faster. I had it for over a month and it's the best phone I have ever had.

My curve was slow also so but I like that email feature.

[harsh]

Once he gets it up I think he will be very happy.Happy is not a word I would choose. More like "it doesn't hurt quite so much anymore".On why Verizon would not help, I think the people in most of the stores are sales people and if you call for tech help on the phone I am sure they can help you there. Setting up e-mail on the BB is super easy. It’s in the owner’s manual on how to set it up.It is easy because it doesn't do much. I thought the mail application was a fully capable e-mail client and that's obviously far from the truth. Shame on me for assuming.

The trick is that Verizon sets up a blackberry.com account for you but doesn't tell you what the login and password are. I'm guessing that it is the phone number and the PIN. The helpful Verizon support rep didn't get it set up right either but once in, I was able to set it up to look at the e-mails (it took more than the predicted 20 minutes to get rolling).

Now that I find out how little it can do, I'm thinking that he should go back to LogicMail. I can't imagine having to pay extra for what little BB is offering.

I've set up a number of other smart phones and the Storm is far and away the least intuitive and physically most difficult to operate devices I've ever encountered. It is a toy compared with the iPhone and some of the better developed Windows Mobile devices (the bundled Windows Mobile e-mail client comes in a distant next to last compared to the BB's worst).

Maybe it will eventually grow into something more fully featured but Blackberry is obviously out of their element.