Re: blackberry and squirrelmail

thanks to anyone who even thought about this problem, but I gave up and took the blackberry back. 
After two days of talking to telstra "help" desks and combing google, I came to the conclusion that 
the BB is more glitz than function.

I'm now the proud owner of a Nokia. Hopefully less fuss. We shall see.

David.

Philip Rhoades wrote:
> 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.
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