dovecot - Mar 2008 - Help! OT: Blackberry IMAP client suggestions/experience needed

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...........
-- 
===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

>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.

-- 

Knute Johnson
Molon Labe...

On Mar 13, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Stewart Dean 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).
Probably not what you want to hear, but we scrapped our BB's in favor  
of iPhone's and haven't had a bit of mail trouble since.  IPhones  
seem to love Dovecot.  Maybe buy one and let your CFO play with it  
for a day or two.  He'll make your decision for you :-)

B. Bodger
New York, NY