FAQ: Email Reconciliation Features for BIS With Different Accounts
A bit back we shared with you a list that RIM provided of webmail accounts that give you real time delivery with BIS (BlackBerry Internet Service). RIM has been kind enough to also adds some more information in a nice and easy to digest chart that shows you the email reconciliation features. This breaks it down by email type/service and what features you get with each. Very useful if you are tying to decide which features you care about most. Real time delivery, two way read/unread reconciliation, saving sent items, wireless deletion… This just lays it out straight by comparing them across BIS and BES.
| Source | Wireless Deletion | Save Sent Items | Wireless read/unread status |
| Microsoft Outlook Web Access | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Exchange (BES) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IBM Lotus Domino (BES) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Yahoo! Mail | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Live Hotmail or MSN | No | Yes | No |
| AOL | Yes | No | Yes |
| Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) | Yes | N/A | N/A |
| Internet Message Access Protocol 4 (IMAP4) | Yes | Yes, in some cases | Yes |
| Gmail | Yes | Yes | No |
So far it looks like Yahoo Mail or Outlook Web Access seem to be the best options since Gmail does not have the Wireless read/unread option. The thing that I cannot understand is how RIM manages to do wireless read/unread with regular IMAP4 but cannot do it with Gmail… I know Gmail is setup a little different but I am sure it is possible.
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