Re: Re: blackberry and squirrelmail

david <[email protected]>
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Message-ID <[email protected]>

Daniel Pittman wrote:
> david <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> I'm trying to get a shiny new blackberry to connect to a squirrelmail
>> account but not having any luck.
> 
> Um...  SquirrelMail is a web based front-end to an IMAP service.
> 
>> I've set up a test account with a password of "a" (to make mistyping less
>> likely), but no luck at all.
> 
> That is an incredibly bad idea; just a secure password even for testing
> purposes.
> 

I'm sure you are right... but needs must .... :(

You try talking to Telstra helpdesk with words of more than one syllable....

>> Obviously I've tested the account on a normal browser and it works fine. The
>> blackberry options say that javascript is enabled, so I assume it is.
>>
>> Has anyone had any luck with this kind of set up? or any suggestions?
> 
> Why don't you tell the Blackberry to talk to the same IMAP account as the web
> front-end?  That way you can take advantage of the Blackberry having good
> email support, and you don't have to fluff about with getting a random HTML
> email solution running in their web browser.
> 

Because it turns out that you need to buy a package ($30/month!!!!) on top of the normal package. 
Nobody told me that until AFTER  I bought it. There is no sane email client available.

I've now realised that the blackberry WILL log in to a gmail account, but not squirrel. That's the 
mystery that nobody seems to be able to solve. Could it be some javascript version issue?

We tried an iphone and had no problem logging in with that so it looks like a blackberry issue.

There is nothing coming up  on my logs to suggest any problem at all - not even an authentication 
failure.



> Regards,
>         Daniel
> 
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