Re: blackberry and squirrelmail
Philip Rhoades <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.org.user-groups.slug.chat |
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| Organization | Pricom Pty Ltd |
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David, On 2009-07-17 12:36, david wrote: > > > 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. Yes, I have the same problem logging into a Squirrelmail account on a server as well - I did not work out whether it was an encryption problem on the username/passwd or what . . I found another, clumsy solution . . Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: [email protected] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html