Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Unless you absolutely have to have groupware functionality + shared > tasks, shared calender, etc on your blackberry, and want to pay extra > for PUSH, it's not necessary to go this route. Google has a BB app that will sync contacts and calendars to their servers. There are serveral SyncML clients, if my memory serves, that will sync to open source products. > Simply setup an IMAP server, and set your blackberry to connect to the > IMAP server, This is how I do mine, and it work very well. Further, BB now supports IDLE, which produces "push" type (instant) email on IMAP. Cyrus supports IDLE. I am not sure about the others. -- Sincerely, John Thomas