Anybody else without BES redirect work mail to BIS?

I set that up last week and have to say it works like a charm. I don't have BES for my work and use my personal BB 8310 for everything. But I wanted to know whenever I received a work e-mail since I'm out of the office and on the road a lot.

Setting up an Outlook rule to redirect *most* incoming messages has worked great. Rather than forwarding, the redirect option shows the original sender's name, not mine simply as a Fw. So it looks like it was sent to my BB email directly from the originator. I can then choose to respond from my BB or disregard it and handle it when I'm back on Outlook.

I like this MUCH better than OWA because I don't have to browse, I get the messages instantly (faster than they get to Outlook), and I have the privacy of using my own phone without big brother watching my every move.

Best of all worlds!

BES has other uses than just e-mail. PIM synchronization and security come to mind. If you are looking for just e-mail and your company allows OWA, its a good chance you can just add the e-mail via BIS (rather than redirect or forward) and you will be able to reply via BB just the same as if you are sitting at your desk.

Originally Posted by Sith_Apprentice

BES has other uses than just e-mail. PIM synchronization and security come to mind. If you are looking for just e-mail and your company allows OWA, its a good chance you can just add the e-mail via BIS (rather than redirect or forward) and you will be able to reply via BB just the same as if you are sitting at your desk.

Yeah, I knew there were other advantages to BES that I don't get, but this seemed to be a good workaround for the email issue. After your comment about security, I'm also going to go in and tweak my rule a bit more to try and mitigate some of those potential issues.

I wasn't aware that I might possibly be able to add e-mail via BIS since we allow OWA. I'll talk to my IT folks and see if that's a possibility. Thanks for the tip!