Who's using a BlackBerry with gmail or other email?

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deronsizemore

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Anyone using a blackberry with Gmail or any other email like one from your domain?

I'm curious to know if I used a blackberry to retreive my email from gmail, if in fact when I received it on the blackberry, if I would then still need to go into Gmail and select "mark as read" or if gmail is smart enough to know that I've already opened it up elsewhere and will mark it as "read" inside gmail? This goes for any other email account that might be on your domain. I would like to get a blackberry, but don't want to have to keep going back and forth marking things "read" after I've already opened and read them on the blackberry.
 


deronsizemore said:
Anyone using a blackberry with Gmail or any other email like one from your domain?

I'm curious to know if I used a blackberry to retreive my email from gmail, if in fact when I received it on the blackberry, if I would then still need to go into Gmail and select "mark as read" or if gmail is smart enough to know that I've already opened it up elsewhere and will mark it as "read" inside gmail? This goes for any other email account that might be on your domain. I would like to get a blackberry, but don't want to have to keep going back and forth marking things "read" after I've already opened and read them on the blackberry.
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It will work. I just switched to a Motorola Q which uses the same push email that blackberry uses. You just need to set your gmail to pop3 forward I believe. I'm pretty sure you will still have to go through and mark things as read on the email account after you've read them on the blackberry, because that's what I have to do. You could always just go to the mobile gmail page on your phone's browser and do it from there, which would eliminate the hassle but it wouldn't push the emails to the phone the second you got them, you'd have to keep checking it.
 
Okay, that's what I wasn't sure about. We've got an enterprise server set up at work for our blackberry users and I knew it would work with that, but wasn't sure about gmail, etc.

I guess it's not such a big deal to go in periodically and mark things "read". I'm not that popular anyway that I get 1000 emails a day. :bootyshake:
 
so if I setup an enterprise server on my home machine it wound't be a problem?

lazar how much are you paying per month? I want to get the Q as well
 
I'm pretty sure if you set up an enterprise server it'd be fine. I just have the pop3 forwarding, it isn't bad.
I'm paying 80$ a month, 30$ for the minutes and 50$ for the unlimited data. I paid 200$ for the Q. I hated this phone when it first came out, but then my xv6700 broke so I bought it, and it's probably the best phone I've ever owned. So many badass features and hacks you can do to it to make it better.
 
I'm not sure how it all works. I have mine through work and I remember before I got in to the enterprise server it was just forwarded to my phone.
 
The Motorola Q is not compatible with Blackberry Enterprise Server. The Q runs MS Windows Mobile 5 not RIM's OS. To sync email on the Q you need to be running Exchange or the desktop Active Sync.
 
Palmerville said:
The Motorola Q is not compatible with Blackberry Enterprise Server. The Q runs MS Windows Mobile 5 not RIM's OS. To sync email on the Q you need to be running Exchange or the desktop Active Sync.
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Ahh ok, I knew it began with an E. You can also sync mail on the q using the wireless sync, and as long as your email service has pop3 forwarding, you are good to go.
 
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