Hi,

I am looking for information on having e-mails forwarded to something like a Blackberry.

Does anyone here have e-mails from their real estate website sent to them electronically?

Any advice, or info on your experience with this type of a system would be a big help.

Thanks!

Install an email client application on your Blackberry (if there isn't one already installed). Then set it up to IMAP (retrieve messages but leave them on the server) to your existing email account. You'll need your email server names, username, and password when setting it up. Your network administrator or email provider can give you this information.

It's also possible that your email provider has web-based email, in which case, all you'll need to get to it is a web browser.

Obviously this advice is vague, because it all depends on what software you install. Whatever you do install will probably have a guided ("wizard") setup, or a text file with instructions on how to do it.

I hope this helps at least a little.

Edgeman,

Welcome to the forum. Thanks for your post - that does help. I'll look into it from the Blackberry side, too.

Thanks again,

Kathleen

I have the Blackberry and the Treo 650. Basically, the Blackberry is great because you get emails within 3 minutes or so. For the Treo, you can buy PalmOS email programs that automatically check your regular email, but it's slower than the Blackberry and I think it uses up your battery life.

Other options would be to 1) have your standard email address forward all emails to the email address provided by the mobile phone company or 2) use your the email address provided by the mobile phone company.

For instance, "yourphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com" would be your Sprint email address. You can check this email online through Sprint's site as well. I initally had my email set up to automatically forward all incoming messages to my sprint email. I believe the email/paging capabilities often cost a little more per month.

Bottom line..I love the Blackberry and recommend it for email. I pay for unlimited data capabilities and it works great. Hope this all makes sense.

Dee,

It does make sense. I hadn't thought about speed of delivery. Sounds like the Blackberry gets another vote!

Thanks for the post.

Kathleen