Passport not working for me.
Hi Crackberries.
I�ve had my passport for two days now, and at this point I think I will return it.
My previous BB was a OS7 Torch and email for the device was handled by the Blackberry Internet Service (BIS). When I worked at RIM it was called the Blackberry Web Client (BWC). I use a small ISP that runs email servers very well, but they are a small outfit. I�ve had an email address with them since 1994 and I don�t want to give that up. They run an SMTP/POP3 architecture and they refuse to hold more than a small amount of mail in the interval between it arriving and the customer removing it with a mail client. When email arrived at my ISP, it was filtered for spam and viruses, put in my POP3 mailbox and also forwarded to the BIS server. The BIS system filtered the inbound emails using filters that I could configure, and then forwarded those that survived to the handheld. Perfect. Really old emails on the Torch rolled over and were deleted. Perfect.
My desktop machine fetched emails from the POP3 server with Thunderbird and then they were deleted from my ISP�s server. Perfect. My ISP held nothing, my desktop machine held everything and my Torch held what I wanted it to.
BB10 doesn�t support this at all. My passport has no emails on it because it mirrors my ISP�s server which is always empty.
I can�t believe what I�m seeing. No push email, no email address and no filters with BB10. How can the Blackberry name be on this thing?
My ISP suggested that I set up an IMAP database with Google and use that. Giving your email database to Google is also giving it to the NSA. The more we give to Google, the worse we are. I don't know how small ISPs who are faced with a much more complex email environment are going to cope . Not all of them can afford the cost and management time for terabyte email databases.
Anybody have any insight.?