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klokkie

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Hi ,

I am new to blackberry - loving the whole experience. Got everything working thanks to a few guys here. Thanks by the way.

Now i have a difficult question. My emails come through very slowly - as supposed to on the computer itself. Other friends who also has a bb leaves their email client on , removes messages from the server and their email comes through on their blackberry before it does on the computer. Our domain is registered at SA DOMAIN Internet services, it's a POP Server.

If i leave my email client on - it checks for new email every 5min - my email regurlarly does not come through on the BB.

Is this just how it works?
 
klokkie said:
Hi ,

I am new to blackberry - loving the whole experience. Got everything working thanks to a few guys here. Thanks by the way.

Now i have a difficult question. My emails come through very slowly - as supposed to on the computer itself. Other friends who also has a bb leaves their email client on , removes messages from the server and their email comes through on their blackberry before it does on the computer. Our domain is registered at SA DOMAIN Internet services, it's a POP Server.

If i leave my email client on - it checks for new email every 5min - my email regurlarly does not come through on the BB.

Is this just how it works?
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With POP mail BB only checks every 20 minutes, your desktop client is probably set to remove mails from the server once downloaded so when your BB checks then there is nothing there, your options are to either set your desktop client to check at less regular intervals, configure it to not delete message once retried or move to gmail which is a push service.

GMail being push does not wait to be checked, it just send the mail through itself so instead of every 20 minutes its about 10-20 seconds, if you have a personal mail account then its a fairly easy switch, if its a company then not so easy and youd obviously need approval of the powers that be, but google does offer a sme service allowing you to use your own domain name for your gmails, free account sallows 50 mail address, paid 1 is unlimited with 25gb mailbox instead of 7gb and is about $200 per annum.
 
Thanks, it is a company email adr...we are only 4 people - although we just renewed our domain at Sa Domain for the year.
Thanks for the advice
 
Well then its easy and free, you can go to https://www.google.com/accounts, how it works is your register your domain with them, its got nothing to do with SA Domain.
What google does is give you a set of mx records that you use on your current hosting server, so your website remains where it is, your emails just go to google with a full gmail interface and you can toss in your companies logo for some personalization. Your company can then probably cut costs by reducing the hosting package as you wont need the email space any longer. Google will give you 50X7gb accounts all with your companies domain name, so your clients will be none the wiser.

Advantage then with gmail would be any push ready phone can work with push mail, i use it on my moms Nokia 5300 and it works like a charm, almost any email ready phone made in the last 2 years supports googles push function.

You get the 1 added bonus of having corporate access to services like google docs as well as your BB wil sync your calendar and contacts keeping google and your handset in sync.
 
We only register our domain with SA Domain and then have 4 email adrs which we renew each year. We dont have a website - so no hosting servers and such.
I assume it wont be possible then get the gmail option the now?
 
klokkie said:
We only register our domain with SA Domain and then have 4 email adrs which we renew each year. We dont have a website - so no hosting servers and such.
I assume it wont be possible then get the gmail option the now?
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who hosts your domain?

As long as you have access to the MX record you can change it yourself to Google Apps - otherwise the host should be willing to do it - it saves them the trouble of hosting your email. :)
 
klokkie said:
We only register our domain with SA Domain and then have 4 email adrs which we renew each year. We dont have a website - so no hosting servers and such.
I assume it wont be possible then get the gmail option the now?
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You still technically have a hosting server, its where your emails are. gmail corporate unfortunately does not work independently, your domain has to be registered and active somewhere for it to work and currently even though you don't have a website its still an active registered domain with SA Domains, without the hosting server it would be impossible for you to currently get your mails. So even if you go to gmail you will still need sa domains or some other company to act as the server to re-direct your mail to google.

All you or SA Domain needs to do is change the MX records, they will still control the domain and you would still then need to renew with them, you just then pay a small fee to get all the extra benefits from google via your annual fee with sa domains.
 
Ok, so how do I go about doing all this? How do I register my domain on Google? And exchange the mx records?
Sorry for the step by step request....
 
I'm mobile now, but I gave the liink in my first post, trust me, google wnet out of their way with the instructions, it takes detail to a whole new level. I had no idea what I was doing when I started and I managed to get it rite.

It does require verification and activation steps so all in all it can take days, but its something you won't have to do again till you move hosts. Once you done its more than worth it.
 
Thanks again for the advice. However , i found another way.
I logged into the sys admin on my sa domain email and set up a forwarding rule to my gmail account - and set up my gmail account on my blackberry - so the emails are pushed immediately to my phone. I just set up the reply adr to be my normal work email. A bit of a workaround but a acceptable solution for the time being. I am hoping that when i reply not too many people would notice the different email adr - because when they hit reply it would be to my work email adr.

I will however try to set up as you described. That is a better solution.
 
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