Storing exchange mailbox on SD (byebye blackberry)

[Grappa]

I'm trying getting rid off of all the blackberries we have around in my office for some good reasons, the main one is that the radio stack for Blackberry is s@@t and BlueAngels are just too cool to stay with that :wink: and so we could also start using Magicians.

I founded the solution/workaround of synch straight to the exchange server very nice and some settings on the server side help to keep gprs traffic under control and the battery stands for a couple of days. I have to say I AM VERY SATISFIED!

What I still miss for taking a period of holiday is the possibility of storing the mails (not the attachments) on the SD and avoid turning ON the display all the times it synchs via gprs (15min peak hours, 2 hours in the night).

Very happy sharing a dump with anyone needs using it for a enterprise and hates blackberry like I do. :twisted:

thanks

[Qcumber]

Hi Grappa,

More info please, what version of Exchange are you using and what did you do to make it all work.

TIA,

Q.

[Grappa]

on server side you need having one Exchange2003 on dmz with "basic" authentication, by default is should be "form-based".

I'm working on the same time on S100, 9090 and 8020.

I've to admit that I'm putting more efforts on the S100 beacuse I feel it more suitable, it's a matter of fact that in almost one year I've got my 9090 I've used the keyboard just for playing games and the wifi sometimes on the airports. In my opinion a S100 with grps it's a cute one.

technically I've done a BigStorage trick for saving some memory (that's not the case for the 9090), than spent some time customizing splashscreens wallpapers dialpad and intellipad, customized CABs in order having a sort of "software-image" in case of hard reset, SpriteBackup with executable restores for day to day maintenance.

the result is quite good but I'm still missing some points:
- storing the mailbos on the SD by default
- keeping the display off during gprs synch (battery-life becomes an issue with mail synch)
- switching the grps off quickier (don't understand why it stays so long)

as soon I'll reach it will be my pleasure posting a dump but if you need it now just ask, no problem. :wink:

I'm also measuring an "on the road" cost for keeping finance dept quite. It's already one week I've put a S100 with scheduled synchs 15mins/2hours average 50mails/day sending 10 with 1Mb attached and surfing the net 15mins (cnn news). Still have to compare the bill with the blackberry fee but I can anticipate the battery stays for 2 full days.