you will need OS4 for some of the "remote control" features, from what I've seen. It treats it almost like an enterprise server.

Also, on the reply-to tool, it doesn't change the from, just sets a reply-to, which is ok for some things, but not all.

OK; today was the day. Under "my tmobile" I now have a page of settings for my Blackberry. It has all the options the old web client had, but of course you can no longer read the emails there. So far it looks pretty good.

One thing; I had STOPPED receiving email till I logged into that page, and resent my service books. If everyone has to do this, then T-mobile is going to get a lot of calls today...

Interesting, I will have to take a look. I am using Desktop and Redirector and had no interruption.

It seems to only impact BWC users. We have another berry here, and it had the same problem; both stopped receiving email around 4am.

I was roaming internationally. Email stopped for acouple of hours, then re-appeared all in a clump. I checked and no new service books. AFter arriving back in the US, a new service book appeared, and when I deleted a message it asked if I wanted to do it just to the handheld or the accoutn as well.

I haven't tried adding any other accounts yet.

I set up a BB account for my Gmail account, downloaded the service books and it works fine. When I reply to a message sent to the gmail account it goes back to there. I didnt see any information from another account there so it looks like it just appears to the recipient to have come from Gmail. One thing that isnt working is that when I say to delete on handheld and desktop it doesnt delete on gmail. Any idea how to set that? Thanks.

You can't do that, yet.

Thanks. Does that mean I will be able to do it in the future?

I have to be honest, I didn't pay much attention to this upgrade and the details. I use my BB mostly for personal use since I cannot integrate with our coprorate stuff (coprate reasons, not technical).
I have had a few gripes and I'm not sure this change really effects many of them.

1- the mail box size limit was a serious issue, glad to hear that will be better
2- send from... sometimes I want to at least send an e-mail that looks like it came from my corporate account (even though I won't get replies on my BB). I have found some of the tools for that.
3- mailing lists deliver 2 copies - if I'm on a mailing list or distrobution group I get two copies of every incoming message, including ones I sent.
4 - have to filter out own replies to mailing lists - can fix the problem of seeing my own replies with a filter. I had to re-build all my filters today on my tmobile.

I'm seeing some improvements already. However, I run my own exchange server at home so I don't use yahoo or gmail for personal mail. So I'm not really sure there was a lot of benift to this change.

I've enjoied reading this thread thought, learned a fair ammount.

-N

My email seems to be back to normal (slowly), I received my last delayed email around 2am, which was over 12 hours late.

Good Question!

I just found that there is a new email reconciilation option. Try setting it to gmail.

Thanks, but where? ;) I dont see it.

After getting no mail for several hours yesterday I resent my service books, a whole bunch of mail came through in one big chunk, and things seemed normal for a few hours - although a whole group of 'old' mail that had been previously sent also came through. Today, all I've had is two message that were already sent to the BB yesterday, no new mail even though I've gotten about 30-40 at work since then (99% of my mail is popped from my work server - we don't have the enterprise option). It looks like mail is being picked up from my server sporadically, if at all. Ideas? I've checked my settings through my t-mobile and they're still there.

The other thing is that I've lost the filters I had set on the BB mail server - mainly to not forward mail that had already been identified as "spam" by my primary server. These message are now getting sent through (when anything is sent). I haven't found any way to set filters through my t-mobile. This will be a big pain when roaming since I don't want to pay for all that spam - when I'm in the US it is just an annoyance , when abroad I'm paying as I go.

Here is the thing: I travel a lot. I do not always have web access which is why I, you know, HAVE A FREAKING BLACKBERRY.

Thanks to this 'upgrade' I was without email for about 36 hours and it seems like at least half of the emails I DID receive during that time were lost to the ether.

As of this morning (finally), my yahoo and my device are playing somewhat nicely, although i have timed the time to get from out box to device and it is averaging a little over 10 minutes, as opposed to immediate under the BWC.

I havent decided yet how much I like the new system because it is really hard to get the bitter, bitter taste of the transition out of my mouth.

Well, I didn't go out and buy a cheap refurb WinPC (see my previous queries in this thread) and decided to give the new T-Mobile BB system a try. All day, Sunday, 2 October, spotty service to T-Mobile account (tmo.whatever . . .), GMail and Yahoo accounts. For the latter two, the delete from handheld v. delete from handheld and server doesn't work (as far as I can tell). It "seems" to be working now (Monday, 3 October pm). But, who knows what is lost in the ether! Weirdly, yesterday and then today, a second time, received a whole slew of (in substance) "Congratualtions, you email account [XXXX] is activated" emails.

T-Mobile has just seemed to manage this poorly. I'm not impressed.